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		<title>LISTEN: AFTAH Interviews Patrick Wooden (Part Four) with DL Foster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Graphic descriptions This is Part Four of our interview with Patrick Wooden [Click HERE to listen], pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This was pre-recorded and aired February 4, 2012. Wooden and AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera are joined in this discussion by DL Foster, founder of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10804" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 371px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/02/SPLC-Wooden-DL-Foster-LaBarbera-Press-Conference-1-1617-12-119-small.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-10804" title="SPLC-Wooden-DL-Foster-LaBarbera- Press Conference, 1-16&amp;17-12 (119) small" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/02/SPLC-Wooden-DL-Foster-LaBarbera-Press-Conference-1-1617-12-119-small.jpg" alt="" width="361" height="269" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">DL Foster, founder of Gay Christian Movement Watch (www.gcmwatch.com), speaks at Jan. 17 pro-family press conference protesting the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, AL. At center is Pastor Patrick Wooden, and at right is AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera.</p></div>
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<p>This is Part Four of our interview with <strong><a href="http://www.plwooden.org" target="_blank">Patrick Wooden</a> [Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/02/2-4-12-Patrick-Wooden-with-D.L.-Foster-Part-Four.mp3">HERE to listen</a>]</strong>, pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This was pre-recorded and aired February 4, 2012. Wooden and AFTAH President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong> are joined in this discussion by <strong>DL Foster</strong>, founder of <a href="http://www.gcmwatch.com" target="_blank">Gay Christian Movement Watch</a>, based in Atlanta. Homosexual activists have sought to make fun of Wooden for describing in these AFTAH interviews) the body-destroying perversions associated with male homosexuality. But LaBarbera, noting that the Homosexual Lobby a &#8220;sin movement,&#8221; says one would expect it to yield heinous perversions like &#8220;<a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html" target="_blank">fisting</a>,&#8221; <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rimming" target="_blank">rimming</a> and &#8220;water sports&#8221; (&#8220;gay&#8221; slang for men urinating on and in one another for sexual pleasure).</p>
<p>Foster says that the portrayal of himself, Wooden and other Black leaders who participated in AFTAH&#8217;s Jan. 17 press conference [click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/23/splc-press-conference-audio-montgomery-al-january-17-2012/" target="_blank">HERE for audio</a>] outside the <strong>Southern Poverty Law Center</strong> headquarters as somehow being controlled by &#8220;white organizers&#8221; &#8220;highlights the high level of racist arrogance inside the homosexual movement&#8221; &#8211; which he said he experienced when he was active as a homosexual. &#8220;The white gay movement needs to deal with its own latent racism,&#8221; he said.  Wooden said he&#8217;s never been called &#8220;Nigger&#8221; so much (by white &#8220;gay&#8221; activists) than since his interviews with AFTAH went public.</p>
<p>Foster and LaBarbera talk about the case of <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jesse_Dirkhising" target="_blank">Jesse Dirkhising</a></strong>, a 13-year-old Arkansas boy who was raped and grotesquely sodomized in 1999 by two older homosexual men who left him for dead after drugging, gagging and penetrating him with foreign objects including a cucumber.</p>
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<p>LaBarbera notes how the twisted SM practices that so cruelly killed young Jesse &#8220;didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere&#8221; but were described (non-judgmentally) in pro-homosexual sadomasochistic publications. Foster notes that compared to the celebrated case of <strong>Matthew Shepard</strong> &#8211; a young homosexual man murdered in Wyoming &#8212; the Dirkhising case received very little secular media coverage because unlike Shepard, &#8220;Jesse Dirkhising didn&#8217;t fit the bill&#8221; as the type of victim that would advance the pro-homosexual cause.</p>
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<p><strong>[Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/27/dl-foster-speech-at-aftah-press-conference-against-splc/" target="_blank">HERE </a>to watch a YouTube video of DL Foster's speech as the SPLC press conference; and click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/16/aftah-interviews-dr-patrick-wooden-part-one/" target="_blank">HERE for Part 1</a>, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/25/aftah-interviews-dr-patrick-wooden-part-two/" target="_blank">HERE for Part 2</a>, and <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/02/01/aftah-interview-with-north-carolina-pastor-patrick-wooden-part-three/" target="_blank">HERE for Part 3</a> of LaBarbera's interviews with Pastor Wooden.]</strong></p>
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		<title>AFTAH Interviews Scott Lively &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part Two of my interview with Scott Lively [listen HERE], founder of Defend the Family International and recipient of this year&#8217;s AFTAH&#8217;s &#8220;American Truth Teller&#8221; award. This interview was pre-recorded and aired Oct. 22, 2011. Lively, author of &#8220;The Pink Swastika&#8221; and other books, was the main target of the Oct. 15 terr0r-attack against Christian [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10276" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 124px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/CLA-Shut-Down_Lively-Brick-thumbnail.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-10276" title="CLA-Shut-Down_Lively Brick -thumbnail" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/CLA-Shut-Down_Lively-Brick-thumbnail.png" alt="" width="114" height="93" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Threatening note, &quot;Shut Down Lively, is written on large brick thrown through the glass door of Christian Liberty Academy Oct. 15th. Pro-homosexual militants lied about  Scott Lively and then demanded that the AFTAH banquet honoring him be shut down.</p></div>
<p>This is Part Two of my interview with <strong>Scott Lively [listen <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/10-22-11-Scott-Lively-Part-Two.mp3" target="_blank">HERE</a>]</strong>, founder of <strong><a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com" target="_blank">Defend the Family International</a> </strong>and recipient of this year&#8217;s AFTAH&#8217;s &#8220;American Truth Teller&#8221; award. This interview was pre-recorded and aired Oct. 22, 2011. Lively, author of <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/showproducts.php" target="_blank">&#8220;The Pink Swastika&#8221;</a> and other books, was the main target of the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/15/breaking-brick-throwing-vandals-attack-aftah-banquet-host-christian-liberty-academy/">Oct. 15 terr0r-attack</a> against Christian Liberty Academy, host of the Americans For Truth banquet. We discuss this &#8220;homo-fascist&#8221; (or &#8220;homo-communist&#8221;) assault, and the escalation of the &#8220;Gay&#8221; Lobby&#8217;s campaign against religious freedom. Part One of the Lively interview is <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/31/aftah-interviews-scott-lively-part-one/" target="_blank">HERE</a>; there will be a total of four interviews with this veteran of the pro-family struggle to resist the growth of homosexual power in the USA. <strong>&#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></strong></p>
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		<title>AFTAH Wears Wayne Besen’s Cruelty as a Badge of Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted this comment today on the homosexual website &#8220;Truth Wins Out,&#8221; in response to an article they posted about a nasty video targeting yours truly as &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;: Wayne, you are a hater and hypocrite of the highest order, though you do a good con-job on TV playing a respectable, decent gay activist. (I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10271" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/wayne_besen_poses1.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10271" title="wayne_besen_poses" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/wayne_besen_poses1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wayne Besen, homosexual propagandist.</p></div>
<p>I posted this comment today on the homosexual website &#8220;Truth Wins Out,&#8221; in response to an <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2011/11/19788/comment-page-1/#comment-52239" target="_blank">article</a> they posted about a nasty video targeting yours truly as &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wayne, you are a hater and hypocrite of the highest order, though you do a good con-job on TV playing a respectable, decent gay activist. (I still remember the days debating you back in DC before you left HRC &#8212; how you would obnoxiously talk over your opponents whenever they brought up inconvenient truths like the disproportionate rates of sexual disease for Men Who Have Sex with Men.)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s too bad now, as one who should be a mature man, that you have to resort to such crude demonizations, sophomoric slanders and character assassination to advance your dubious cause. What a waste of writing talent, but Saul Alinsky would be proud.</p>
<p>The jig is up: despite the Gay Left&#8217;s campaign to smear Christian, pro-family opponents as &#8220;haters,&#8221; more and more everyday people are recognizing that the nastiest, cruelest and most intolerant activists in America are homosexual militants like you, Dan Savage, Evan Hurst and the comically-named &#8220;Truth&#8221; Wins Out. All of you would be exposed as phonies if the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media were anything close to impartial.</p>
<p>As for me, I wear Truth Wins Out&#8217;s hatred and very &#8220;queer&#8221; putdowns like this as a Badge of Honor.</p>
<p>Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong>Founder and President<br />
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.aftah.org/">www.aftah.org</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Liberty Counsel Interview Examines Terror-Attack against AFTAH, Christian Liberty Academy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an episode of Liberty Counsel&#8217;s radio program &#8220;Faith &#38; Freedom,&#8221; with Liberty Counsel Founder and President Mat Staver and Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action. (Barber is also Chairman of the Board of Americans For Truth About Homsoexuality.) Note that at the time of this recording, Barber was relying on early reports coming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following is an episode of Liberty Counsel&#8217;s radio program &#8220;Faith &amp; Freedom,&#8221; with <strong><a href="http://www.lc.org" target="_blank">Liberty Counsel</a></strong> Founder and President <strong>Mat Staver</strong> and <strong>Matt Barber</strong>, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action. (Barber is also Chairman of the Board of Americans For Truth About Homsoexuality.) Note that at the time of this recording, Barber was relying on early reports coming from the Oct. 15th <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/15/breaking-brick-throwing-vandals-attack-aftah-banquet-host-christian-liberty-academy/">terror-attack on Christian Liberty Academy</a>, in which it was feared that the pro-homosexual assailants had entered the building and perhaps created water damage. Actually, they did not enter the building, and the vandalism that did occur was created by large paver bricks thrown through the glass doors and windows of CLA (accompanied by <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/15/breaking-brick-throwing-vandals-attack-aftah-banquet-host-christian-liberty-academy/">notes threatening further violence</a>). &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Gay&#8217; Domestic Terrorism? Pro-Homosexual Militants Attack AFTAH Banquet Host Christian Liberty Academy, Demand Event Be Shut Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Threaten future attacks if &#8220;homophobic&#8221; events at CLA do not stop; police do not treat as &#8220;hate crime&#8221; WARNING: vulgar language on graphic ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, Oct. 19, 2011 &#8211; Pro-homosexual activists attacked the Christian Liberty Academy early October 15th &#8211; throwing two large, concrete brick pavers through its glass doors with a hate-note attached&#8211; and then issued an online statement claiming responsibility for the crime. [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #000000;">WARNING:</span> vulgar language on graphic</em></span></strong></p>
<div id="attachment_10155" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 397px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Hate-Note-Threat-2011.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-10155" title="CLA-Hate-Note-Threat-2011" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Hate-Note-Threat-2011-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="387" height="309" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hate-note sent by pro-homosexual militant that accompanied stone brick pavers thrown through the glass doors at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, Illinois -- in a failed effort to intimidate CLA from hosting an Americans For Truth banquet. Scoot Lively is the pro-family veteran who was honored at banqet with the 2011 AFTAH &quot;American Truth Teller&quot; award. Click on graphic to enlarge.</p></div>
<p>ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, Oct. 19, 2011 &#8211; Pro-homosexual activists attacked the <strong>Christian Liberty Academy</strong> early October 15th &#8211; throwing two large, concrete brick pavers through its glass doors with a hate-note attached&#8211; and then issued an online <a href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/95060/index.php" target="_blank">statement</a> claiming responsibility for the crime. The attackers demanded that CLA &#8220;shut down&#8221; a banquet it was hosting later that evening for the &#8220;homophobic hate group,&#8221; Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). But their main target was pro-family veteran <strong>Scott Lively</strong>, who was honored at the event.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;This is just a sample of what we will do if you don&#8217;t shut down Scott Lively and AFTAH &#8230; <strong>[F**k] Scott Lively. Quit the homophobic [sh*t]!&#8221;</strong></strong> read the note that accompanied the bricks thrown through CLA&#8217;s doors.<strong> </strong>The apparent &#8220;hate crime&#8221; against CLA did not deter the Christian school from hosting the banquet for AFTAH, which presented its 2011 &#8221;American Truth Teller&#8221; award to Lively, founder of <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/" target="_blank">Defend the Family International</a> and the author of &#8220;The Pink Swastika.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_10159" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Attack-Brick-Paver-Shut-Down-Lively.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-10159" title="CLA-Attack-Brick-Paver-Shut-Down-Lively" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Attack-Brick-Paver-Shut-Down-Lively-300x233.png" alt="" width="300" height="233" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Brick paver thrown the window of Christian Liberty Academy, with message, &quot;Shut Down Lively.&quot; Pro-family veteran Scott Lively received AFTAH&#39;s 2011 &quot;American Truth Teller&quot; award.</p></div>
<p>Lively was targeted in the online statement for allegedly condoning violence against homosexuals in Uganda. (This is a false charge: Lively, like AFTAH President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong>, condemns all violence and genuine hatred against homosexuals.) The following excerpt is from the statement posted on the leftist Chicago Independent Media Center website: <strong></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;These chunks of concrete were thrown through these windows and doors for two reasons: to show that there is a consequence for hatred and homophobia in our community and to directly cause this event to be shut down. If this event is not shut down, and the homophobic day trainings do not end, the Christian liberty academy will continue to be under constant attack.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span id="more-10142"></span>After Arlington Heights police came to the scene, they cased the CLA building &#8212; a large, former public high school &#8212; with bomb-sniffing dogs, according to CLA Pastor <strong>Calvin Lindstrom</strong>. As it turned out, the assailants apparently did not enter the building.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Taking credit for a crime</strong></span></p>
<p>The extraordinary aspect to this case is that pro-homosexuality activists boldly took credit for the attack, in an online statement that remains on the leftist <strong>&#8220;Chicago Independent Media Center&#8221;</strong> website &#8212; signalling a new brazenness by homosexual activists. What follows is a screen shot of the statement [link <a href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/95060/index.php" target="_blank">HERE</a>] taking responsibility for this act of domestic terrorism. It was posted early in the morning of Oct. 15 &#8211; just a few hours after the brick-throwing attack by an anonymous author, &#8220;PISSED&#8221; (This same statement was e-mailed to Christian Liberty Academy, Americans For Truth&#8217;s LaBarbera, Scott Lively and others):</p>
<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-domestic-terrorsm-gay-statement.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10143" title="CLA domestic-terrorsm-gay-statement" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-domestic-terrorsm-gay-statement.png" alt="" width="565" height="665" /></a></p>
<p>Here is the URL link for the Chicago Independent Media Center statement, which was still live as of Oct. 19: <a href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/95060/index.php">http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/95060/index.php</a>.</p>
<p>The above statement repeats the extreme rhetoric and accusations against Lively by the <strong>Gay Liberation Network (GLN)</strong>, a Chicago-based, Marxist homosexual activist group that routinely demonizes AFTAH and protests AFTAH events &#8211; including last year&#8217;s three-day <a href="http://www.gaywrongs.com/issues/truth-academy/" target="_blank">Truth Academy.</a> In the weeks leading up to the banquet, GLN announced that it would protest the AFTAH banquet. &#8212; and falsely accused Scott Lively of condoning violence against homosexuals in Uganda (and also Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera of honoring a man (Lively) who supports violence against homosexuals). The charge is slanderous as both Lively and LaBarbera &#8212; like every major pro-family advocate who works on the homosexuality issue &#8212; have repeatedly and consistently opposed violence against homosexuals.</p>
<p>At the banquet and a speaking event Friday and <strong>Grace Gospel Fellowship Church</strong>, Lively reiterated that he steadfastly opposed the death penalty provisions in Ugandan sex-crimes legislation &#8212; which has been simplistically translated by homosexual activists as the &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; bill. To read his previous rebuttal of the false GLN accusations, go <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/13/marxist-homosexual-group-pressures-moody-pastor-to-pull-out-of-aftah-banquet-lively-responds-to-slander/">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>Lively follows <a href="http://www.afa.net" target="_blank">American Family Association</a> founder <strong>Don Wildmon</strong> and <strong>Ken Hutcherson</strong>, pastor of <a href="http://www.abchurch.org/" target="_blank">Antioch Bible Church</a> and pro-traditional marriage advocate,<strong> </strong>as a recipient of the AFTAH &#8220;American Truth Teller&#8221; award.</p>
<p>GLN has denied involvement in the attack on Christian Liberty Academy &#8212; which is being investigated by Arlington Heights police. The <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-18/news/ct-met-arlington-heights-school-vandalized-20111018_1_crime-probe-crime-law-anti-gay-leader" target="_blank"><em>Chicago Tribune</em> reports</a> that the case is not being treated as a &#8220;hate crime.&#8221; AFTAH, like most conservative Christian groups, opposes &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; laws &#8212; but questions why the attack on CLA is not categorized as a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; when it appears the victims (including the Christian Liberty Academy), have been targeted based on their religious beliefs about homosexuality. Both the Illinois and federal &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; laws consider religion and &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; a protected category. Attacks targeting homosexual persons are routinely investigated as &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; from the outset.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Homosexuals blame AFTAH for crime</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_10180" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Attack-Broken_Window_11.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-10180" title="CLA-Attack-Broken_Window_1" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/CLA-Attack-Broken_Window_11-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shattered glass entrance door at CLA after pro-homosexual assault.</p></div>
<p>In the wake of the violent attack on the Christian school, homosexual militants immediately sought to cast doubt on the assault &#8211;  by claiming that it was likely the work of Americans For Truth About Homoseuxuality. Homosexual blogger <strong>Joe Jervis</strong> of the &#8220;Joe.My.God&#8221; blog took the lead, immediately charging on his Twitter account that LaBarbera had staged a fake &#8220;hate crime&#8221; as a publicity stunt leading up to the AFTAH banquet. Jervis has accused other pro-family groups with staging attacks against themselves. Other &#8220;gay&#8221; advocates denounced the attack on CLA and said it would only hinder the homosexual activist movement.</p>
<p>On the Chicago <a href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/95060/index.php" target="_blank">Independendent Media Center</a> website containing the attacker&#8217;s statement taking credit for the crime, Jervis desperately posted this comment:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Does anybody know the person supposedly behind this post? This is an open and unmoderated site from what I can see. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at all to learn that LaBarbera and his foul cohorts staged this entire thing.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Lively recalls fake &#8220;gay&#8221; hate crime</strong></span></p>
<p>Ironically, at both his talks for Americans For Truth, Lively recounted the amazing story from the early 1990&#8242;s of an infamous PRO-homosexual &#8221;hate crime&#8221; hoax staged by a lesbian, <strong>Azalea Cooley</strong> &#8211; to fight a conservative statewide ballot measure known as &#8221;Measure Nine,&#8221; which would have made it unconstitutional for the state to promote homosexuality. Lively served as statewide  media director for <strong>Oregon Citizen&#8217;s Alliance (OCA)</strong>, a Christian group that sponsored Measure Nine, and recalled how Cooley, a black, supposedly wheelchair-bound lesbian, claimed 21 cross-burnings in her front yard after the campaign for Measure Nine was launched.</p>
<p>In the final days of the campaign, after the perpetrators of this series of &#8220;hate crime&#8221; were never caught, two rogue policemen decided to investigate for themelves; as they staked out Cooley&#8217;s home one night, they watched as she came out <strong><em>walking</em></strong> into her front yard holding a can of gasoline, and lit a cross on fire. According to Lively, strategically-placed homosexual activists within Oregon&#8217;s law enforcement agencies &#8212; including &#8220;gay&#8221; relatives of powerful officials &#8212; likely helped derail the proper investigation of Cooley&#8217;s antics.</p>
<p>But, as Lively told the AFTAH audiences Friday and Saturday, &#8220;it gets better.&#8221; The astounding fraud should have received saturation media coverage across the state, but instead was covered seriously only in Cooley&#8217;s hometown of Portland. To end the campaign, Measure Nine&#8217;s opponents held a massive &#8220;March Against Hate&#8221; ending in Portland &#8212; the final mobilization against the &#8220;evil&#8221; OCA ballot meaure. And who was heading up the march as a symbol of the progressive struggle against Religious Right &#8220;hate&#8221;? &#8230; Azalea Cooley, riding in her wheelchair.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTAH honoree Scott Lively responds to Gay Liberation Network lie that he supports violence against Ugandan homosexuals “It is the central (but patently false) narrative of the left that all criticism of homosexuality leads inevitably to violence and murder.” – Scott Lively, recipient of AFTAH’s 2011 “American Truth Teller” Award; from his essay, “Murdering Uganda” &#8220;Blessed are [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>“It is the central (but patently false) narrative of the left that all criticism of homosexuality leads inevitably to violence and murder.”</strong></span> – Scott Lively, recipient of AFTAH’s 2011 “American Truth Teller” Award; from his essay, “Murdering Uganda”</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>&#8220;Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.”</strong>—</span>Jesus Christ, in Matthew 5:11 (NASB)</p></blockquote>
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<div id="attachment_10125" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Erwin_Lutzer_preaching.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10125" title="Erwin_Lutzer_preaching" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Erwin_Lutzer_preaching-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Moody pastor Erwin Lutzer is being pressured by a hateful homosexual group to pull out as keynote speaker for AFTAH&#39;s Oct. 15 banqet.</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Come out and support Scott, Dr. Lutzer and AFTAH!</span> Please join us this Saturday, Oct. 15th at the AFTAH banquet with Dr. Lutzer (doors open at 6:00 PM at <a href="http://www.christianlibertyacademy.com/" target="_blank">Christian Liberty Academy</a>, 502 W. Euclid Ave., Arlington Heights, IL; tickets $10; $20 at the door). Dr. Lutzer will address the escalating persecution against Christians under pro-homosexuality laws. (Dr. Lively also will give a brief speech as we present him with the 2011 AFTAH “American Truth Teller” award.)</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Friday speech by Lively:</span> There is a second opportunity to hear Scott Lively, who will give a speech Friday, Oct. 14 at 7:00 PM at <a href="http://www.gracebeliever.com" target="_blank">Grace Gospel Fellowship</a> church in Bensenville, IL, (located on Route 83 just north of I-290)  The event is FREE but there will be a freewill offering taken for Americans For Truth – to help us combat homosexual extremism as typified by GLN.  This event will include time for Q &amp; A with Scott.  Thank you for standing with us!</strong></p>
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<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong>Dear AFTAH Readers, </strong></p>
<p>A Chicago Marxist group, <strong>Gay Liberation Network</strong>, is pressuring Moody Church Pastor <strong>Dr. Erwin Lutzer</strong> to pull out as keynote speaker at the Americans For Truth banquet this Saturday because AFTAH is honoring <strong>Scott Lively</strong>, who GLN falsely claims has a “history as a vicious gay basher.” At the October 15 event, AFTAH will present Lively with its 2011 “American Truth Teller” award for his years of defending truth on the homosexual issue.Scott Lively has been the target of a malicious homosexual campaign of lies claiming he supports violence against homosexuals.&#8221;]</p>
<div id="attachment_10126" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Scott-Lively-21.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10126" title="Scott-Lively-2" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Scott-Lively-21-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Scott Lively has been the target of a malicious homosexual campaign of lies claiming he supports violence against homosexuals.</p></div>
<p>Lively sent me (and Dr. Lutzer) the following two letters in response to GLN leader Bob Schwartz’s outlandish claims. A verbatim copy of the contents of the GLN letter, sent to Lutzer by certified mail September 27, 2011, follows Scott’s letters below.</p>
<p>In his letter to Lutzer, GLN’s Bob Schwartz writes:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“Are you aware of Lively’s history as a vicious gay basher?&#8230;In addition, as you may know, LaBarbera’s organization [AFTAH] and Lively’s Abiding Truth Ministries are both described as ‘hate groups’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Are these the kinds of organizations with which you wish to associate the Moody Church? …[W]e take you at your word when you say you oppose violence against gays. We therefore assume that you would not want to be associated with those, like Lively and LaBarbera, who either support violence outright, or honor those who do.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>This is a monstrous lie. From the beginning of my involvement in the homosexuality debate, I – like Scott – have repeatedly and consistently condemned all violence and genuine hatred directed at homosexuals. So when Schwartz and the GLN urged Pastor Lutzer not to <strong><em>“[associate] with those, like Lively and LaBarbera, who either support violence outright, or honor those who do”</em> – </strong>they slandered me as well as Scott.</p>
<p><span id="more-10121"></span>The chutzpah of the Chicago-based GLN and its co-leader, Bob Schwartz, is hard to overstate – for it was <strong>Schwartz himself who once made a thinly-veiled threat of violence against this writer</strong> as I was standing in opposition to a Chicago “gay youth” event in downtown Chicago (as then-Executive Director of Illinois Family Institute). Schwartz pointed to a few Chicago policemen standing nearby and told me that if it weren’t for the presence of my “friends” (the police), he would push me into oncoming traffic. Since I began writing about the incident, Schwartz has never denied making the nasty remark. Of course, had it been the other way around and I’d made the same violence-tinged threat against a homosexual advocate like Schwartz, there likely would have been “hate crimes” charges filed against me!</p>
<div id="attachment_10127" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/GLN-Anti-Bible-T-shirt-website-10-7-11.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10127" title="GLN Anti-Bible T-shirt-website-10-7-11" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/GLN-Anti-Bible-T-shirt-website-10-7-11-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From the Gay Liberation Network website: crass anti-Christian bigotry and distortion of biblical truth. Click on graphic to enlarge.</p></div>
<p>The Gay Liberation Network is one of the most vicious and extreme homosexualist organizations I have ever encountered.  They hatefully <a href="http://www.gayliberation.net/press/2008/1112wct_hallofshame.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">smeared Dr. James Dobson’s good</span></a> name and accused him of “hate speech” when he was inducted into the Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications’ Hall of Fame.  And they blasted Dr. Lutzer as a “hater” simply because he wrote a book against same-sex “marriage.”  (The GLN protesters even disparaged the venerable Moody Church as a <a href="http://www.illinoisfamily.org/informed/contentview.asp?c=34757" target="_blank">“House of Hate”!)</a> Also, see Bob Schwartz’s letter <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2010/07/14/gay-liberation-network-leader-acclaims-u-is-firing-of-catholic-professor/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">HERE</span></a> supporting the University of Illinois’ firing of Catholic professor <strong>Ken Howell</strong> because he taught the Catholic, natural law opposition to homosexual practice (who was later reinstated).</p>
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<p>Thus, it is completely in line with GLN’s malicious track record to see them cruelly malign and lie about Scott – a godly and courageous Christian man – as a “vicious gay basher.”  Still, as one who has also been lied about on a regular basis by homosexual militants, it grieves my heart to see this good man portrayed as evil (Isaiah 5:20).</p>
<p>We are grateful to Dr. Lutzer for not giving in to this deceitful and despicable GLN campaign against Lively &#8212; who daily models the Christian’s noble calling to speak Gospel <em>truth in love – </em>and who has been mercilessly demonized by the liberal media and LGBT activists for boldly proclaiming the unswerving truth about homosexuality, year in and year out.</p>
<p><strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong><br />
<strong>Americans For Truth About Homosexuality</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.aftah.org/"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.aftah.org</span></strong></a><strong> </strong><br />
<strong>E-mail: </strong><a href="mailto:americansfortruth@gmail.com"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">americansfortruth@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Letter to Dr. Lutzer from Scott Lively Oct. 10, 2011:</strong></p>
<p>Dear Peter [LaBarbera],</p>
<p>As you well know, I am a Bible-believing Christian who abhors violence against anyone, and have never advocated violence or hatred against homosexuals.  You may recall that when we first met in Framingham, MA in 1992, my wife and I and our four young sons had for several months been nursing a former homosexual man with AIDS in our own home.  He lived with us until his death from that horrific disease later that year.  I have worked with dozens of people seeking an exit from that lifestyle over the years, including my own sister (who repented and overcame it), and have worked with men seeking recovery from homosexuality in my inner-city church in Springfield, MA.  The website of my Springfield mission is <a href="http://www.redemptiongate.org/" target="_blank">www.redemptiongate.org</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_10133" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Bob_Schwartz_gln.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10133" title="Bob_Schwartz_gln" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/10/Bob_Schwartz_gln-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">GLN leader Bob Schwartz once told AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera that he would like to push him into oncoming traffic.</p></div>
<p>While I am compelled by Christ to love those who struggle with homosexual sin as individuals, I am also strongly opposed to the homosexual political agenda, which I view as an existential threat to Christian civilization around the world.  I have long considered myself a missionary to the global pro-family movement and have ministered in more than two dozen countries as a university lecturer, consultant to government officials and advisor to pastors and Christian leaders.  As you know, I hold a <em>Juris Doctor</em> degree from Trinity Law School, a TH.D. from the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, and a Certificate in Human Rights from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.</p>
<p>One of the countries in which I have ministered is Uganda.  I was keynote speaker at their first national pro-family conference, sponsored by the Minister of Ethics and Integrity in 2002(?).  My wife and I returned the following year to help the movement develop, and in 2009 I was invited to give a seminar to government officials and other community leaders about the homosexual issue.  They were planning to draft legislation to curb the rapid spread of homosexuality in the country.</p>
<p>The text for my lectures was based entirely on my textbook &#8221;Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the &#8216;Gay&#8217; Agenda&#8221; which was then in manuscript form but has since been published in print form and in PDF; the latter is downloadable without charge at <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/" target="_blank">http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/</a>.  I have also attached a copy.  You will not find a single sentence in this book that promotes hatred or violence against homosexuals.</p>
<p>During my 2009 trip I also addressed members of the Ugandan Parliament in their national assembly hall.  My advice to the MPs regarding the law they were contemplating but had not yet drafted was to focus on rehabilitation of homosexuals and not punishment.  I urged them to become the first government in the world to develop a state-sponsored recovery system for homosexuality on the model we have in the United States for alcoholism.</p>
<p>In contradiction to my advice, a few months after the seminar an MP introduced a bill to criminalize homosexuality.  The terms of the bill were harsh, as is very common in African countries, including capital punishment for a category of crimes called &#8220;aggravated homosexuality.&#8221;  That category was aimed at pedophilia and sexual abuse of disabled persons but was inartfully worded so as to potentially also encompass simple homosexuality.</p>
<p>I do not support capital punishment for any sex crimes, let alone simple homosexuality, which I view as a treatable behavioral disorder, and so I opposed the bill.  I was nevertheless accused in the international media of not only endorsing the bill but of advocating for it.  These false accusations were not deterred by my written responses which attempted to set the record straight.  The first was an editorial titled &#8220;The Death Penalty in Uganda&#8221; and the second was a copy of my letter to the Ugandan Parliament together with its response.  They are published on my website here  <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=4480922" target="_blank">http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=4480922</a>  and here <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=3261726" target="_blank">http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=3261726</a>.</p>
<p>I am no stranger to persecution for my commitment to Biblical truth, and over the twenty plus years I have worked primarily in this ministry I have been maligned and slandered to an extreme degree.  This is a tactic of all leftists but especially of the &#8220;gays,&#8221; who are the most adept and vicious of all in the use of malicious propaganda, as should be no surprise to any Christian familiar with Romans 1:26-31.</p>
<p>Following the introduction of the Uganda Bill I was personally attacked as the supposed &#8220;mastermind&#8221; behind it in feature stories in the <em>New York Times, London Guardian, Canadian National Post</em>, ABC News, and PBS, among others.  Later, not once, but twice, when supposed homosexual activists in Uganda were killed, it was implied by the liberal western media that I was responsible.  In both cases the accusations were published before the facts were even known to the police.  In both cases the deaths were later proved to be unrelated to the passions surrounding the Ugandan bill.  The first killing turned out to be the work of pagan witch doctors involved in some bizarre ritual.  The original story is no longer on the Ugandan news site but the following item from a &#8220;gay&#8221; blog admits their facts were wrong (while casting themselves as victims of a &#8220;hoax&#8221;):    <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hodge/2930/hoax_underscores_urgency_for_lgbt_people_in_uganda/" target="_blank">http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hodge/2930/hoax_underscores_urgency_for_lgbt_people_in_uganda/</a>.</p>
<p>The second case, involving the grisly murder of Ugandan homosexual activist David Cato, turned out to be a crime of passion by a male prostitute whom Cato had bailed out of jail and taken to be his houseboy:   <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1</a></p>
<p>In neither of these cases was an apology written, nor was a correction on the facts made; neither did ANY mainstream media outlet issue a retraction of the false implication that I was somehow involved in these killings.</p>
<p>In the two years since the propaganda campaign against me was launched, I have received hundreds if not thousands of hate mails, including a plausible death threat which led to judicial action by the police.  I have been shunned as a resource by several Christian organizations (and numerous pastors), and my church has been picketed numerous times and a rock thrown through the front window once.  One time a man stuck his head in the door during my sermon to yell &#8220;Scott Lively is a murderer.&#8221;  I was also attacked on the front page of the <em>Boston Globe</em> in a purely gratuitous &#8221;hit piece,&#8221; centered on the Ugandan story, designed to discredit my Christian mission in Springfield.</p>
<p>I am fully content to know that those who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution and I have not shrunk, nor will I shrink from standing boldly for the truth of God&#8217;s word, come what may.  Neither will I succumb to the urge for revenge or hatred toward those who hate and attack me with such hysteria.  They truly know not what they do.</p>
<p>I must, however, exhort my fellow Christians not to allow themselves to be influenced by the propaganda nor intimidated by the harassment tactics of LGBT activists.  It has always been the case that the cause of Christ is advanced only through selfless courage in the face of determined opposition.  Not even the gates of hell can prevail against us when we abide unshakably in Him.  Even today believers must stand fast to the point of death in some places in the world.  How can we dare to shrink from our challenge when we face merely slander by our foes and shunning by weaker brothers?</p>
<p>Many Blessings,</p>
<p>Scott</p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p>Below is a short, subsequent message from Lively regarding the Gay Liberation Network’s cynical claim that he “justified anti-gay violence” toward Uganda’s most prominent pro-homosexuality activist; we have attached a copy of Scott’s piece, “Murdering Uganda,”</p>
<p>Hi Peter,</p>
<p>My prior message covers all the aspects of this letter except the accusation that I justified violence in Uganda.  Their quote is from my attached essay &#8220;Murdering Uganda&#8221; which shall serve as a complete rebuttal to their misrepresentation.  Please forward this to Pastor Lutzer along with my prior message to you.</p>
<p>In Jesus,</p>
<p>Scott</p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><strong>Murdering Uganda</strong></p>
<p>By Pastor Scott Lively, J.D., Th.D.</p>
<p>President, Defend the Family International</p>
<p><a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.defendthefamily.com</span></a></p>
<p>Uganda is being murdered.  The nation once called “The Pearl of Africa” by Winston Churchill, a lush and beautiful country as fertile as the Nile Delta.  It is the nation that retained its self-rule through centuries of African colonialism, the society that survived even the atrocities of the cannibal cultist Idi Amin, the culture that has been thriving in Christian revival for over a dozen years.</p>
<p>This great and honorable nation, alone in Africa to have all but conquered the scourge of AIDS  through abstinence &#8212; and whose First Lady led a holy gathering of thousands of believers on the eve of the millennium, dedicating her homeland “to Jesus Christ for a thousand years” &#8212; this Uganda, a shining light in the Dark Continent, is being murdered.</p>
<p>The murderers are the lavender Marxists, the now-global network of sexual revolutionaries bent on remaking the entire world in their own perverted image, whose juggernaut has toppled even once mighty Britain, crushing under their lavender boots after eight centuries the symbol of its Christian power: the Magna Charta, whose first principle had proclaimed, “The English church must be free!”  These revolutionists of Sodom, who march triumphantly through all the major cities of the western world to flaunt their defeat of moral law, and who hold both Hollywood and the heart of America’s president in their iron grip: these very same zealots have fixed their malevolent gaze on Christian Uganda.</p>
<p>Uganda is the only country in the world with a national holiday commemorating its rejection of sexual perversion.  Every June 3 it honors the 22 young men and boys who were tortured and roasted alive in 1886 by homosexual King Mwanga, because they refused to submit to sodomy.   Is it any wonder, then, that Uganda has reacted violently against the army of agitators, led by George Soros, who now seek to re-homosexualize Ugandan culture?</p>
<p>It is as if the militant ranks of “Code Pink” were transported back to 1890s America to agitate for “sexual freedom.”  Our great grandparents would not have countenanced this.  There would have been violence, as there has now been in Uganda.  And that is, of course, the strategy: the <em>agents provocateur </em>are goading unsophisticated natives into over-reacting, while the “gay” media lie in wait to catch the images and spin the propaganda that is even now poisoning the gullible against the Ugandans.</p>
<p>Ugandan homosexual activist David Kato was recently beaten to death with a hammer, a horrific crime.  These very media rushed eagerly to judge this a hate crime and to blame those, like me, who have spoken against homosexuality in Uganda.  It is the central (but patently false) narrative of the left that all criticism of homosexuality leads inevitably to violence and murder. Yet the killer has now been caught and confessed that he was a live-in male prostitute who murdered Kato for failing to pay him as promised.  The “gay” hate-narrative has failed, the Ugandan rejection of “gay” culture has been vindicated, and the finger-pointing media have pulled quietly back into the shadows &#8212; for now.</p>
<p>There is indeed evil in Uganda today, but it is not the reaction of Christian and Moslem citizens to the rape of their culture. It is the pink-gloved hand of western powers that are cutting the throat of Africa’s most God-fearing country, and one of the world‘s most promising Christian democracies.</p>
<p>______________________________________</p>
<p><strong>Gay Liberation Network letter to Dr. Erwin Lutzer, filled with falsehoods against Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera:</strong><br />
Gay Liberation Network</p>
<p>4404 N. Magnolia, #420, Chicago, IL 60640</p>
<p>LGBTLiberation@aol.com<br />
<a href="http://www.gayliberation.net/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.GayLiberation.net</span></a><br />
773-209-1187</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">September 27, 2011</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Pastor Erwin Lutzer</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Moody Church</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1635 N. LaSalle Street</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Chicago, IL 60614</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Via certified mail, restricted delivery</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dear Pastor Lutzer:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We in Gay Liberation Network are aware that you are the scheduled main speaker at an October 15 fundraising dinner of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. Do you know that one Scott Lively is to be honored at that dinner by Peter LaBarbera. Are you aware of Scott Lively’s history as a vicious gay basher?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">LaBarbera identifies Lively as a “veteran Christian culture warrior who has been leading the resistance against the homosexualist juggernaut—in the USA and across the world.” LaBarbera says Lively has “suffered greatly for doing good and honoring God and His Truth.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>“Honoring God and His Truth”?</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Scott Lively journeyed to Uganda in 2009 with other US evangelical gay bashers to stage a “Seminar on Exposing the Homosexual Agenda” even though homosexuality was already illegal in that nation. Lively helped stoke anti-gay animus by playing the “child molestation” card, asserting that gays are “looking for other people to prey upon, and that went they see someone from a broken home, it’s like they have a flashing neon sign over their head…male homosexuality has not traditionally been adult to adult, it’s men adult to teenager….The gay movement is an evil institution.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">It was following Lively’s “seminar” that legislation was introduced into the Ugandan parliament that would impose the death penalty for so-called aggravated homosexuality.” All gay meetings would be banned under this draconian measure, and heterosexuals could be jailed as well for any advocacy of homosexuality or defense of gay people. Please note that Scott Lively has supported this further criminalizing of homosexuality, even as some evangelicals like Rick Warren have distanced themselves from it. (Lively advised against death sentences for Ugandan gays, since it could result in “public sympathy” for them; he prefers forced “rehabilitation.”)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">More recently, Lively justified anti-gay violence when Uganda’s leading gay advocate was murdered. Lively wrote, “It is as if the militant ranks of ‘Code Pink’ were transported back to 1890s America to agitate for ‘sexual freedom.’ Our great grandparents would not have countenanced this. <strong><em>There would have been violence, as there has now been in Uganda </em></strong>[emphasis added by Schwartz]</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In addition, as you may know, LaBarbera’s organization [AFTAH] and Lively’s Abiding Truth Ministries are both described as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Are these the kind of organizations with which you wish to associate the Moody Church?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Although our differences with you are sharp and distinct, due to your opposition to marriage equality for lesbian and gay people, we take you at your word when you say that you oppose violence against gays. We therefore assume that you would not want to be associated with those, like Lively and LaBarbera, who either support violence outright, or honor those who do.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We hope, therefore, you will rethink your decision to appear at LaBarbera’s banquet. Whatever your decision, we will be at the Christian Liberty Academy to protest those who oppose our equal rights, and particularly those who countenance violence against our community or participate in honoring those who do.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truly yours,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Bob Schwartz</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For the Gay Liberation Network</p>
<p>_________________________________________________</p>
<p><strong>Biography of Dr. Scott Lively </strong></p>
<p>Dr. Scott Lively is President of Defend the Family International, a United States-based human rights organization which defends family values and religious freedom. An attorney, author and ordained minister, Dr. Lively is a staunch advocate of what he terms “Masculine Christianity,” &#8212; a scripturally-rooted doctrine of Christian cultural and political assertiveness.  Dr. Lively is also an internationally recognized expert on the global homosexual movement, which he identifies as a leading threat to Christianity in the modern age.</p>
<p><strong>Education:</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Lively holds the degrees of <em>Juris Doctor</em>, <em>magna cum laude</em>, from Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California, and <em>Doctor of Theology </em>from the School of Bible Theology Seminary and University in San Jacinto, California.  He also holds a <em>Certificate</em> in Human Rights, from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.</p>
<p><strong>Published Works: </strong></p>
<p><em>Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the “Gay” Agenda</em>, (2010);</p>
<p><em>My Life in His Hands: A Testimony of God’s Grace and Goodness</em> (2007);</p>
<p><em>The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party</em>, 4<sup>th</sup> Edition (2002), with co-author Kevin E. Abrams;</p>
<p><em>The Poisoned Stream: “Gay” Influence in Human History </em>(1996);</p>
<p><em>Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child</em> (1997);</p>
<p><em>Why and How to Defeat the “Gay” Movement </em>(2001);</p>
<p><em>Defeating “Gay” Arguments With Simple Logic (2003)</em>;</p>
<p><em>Balance in the Classroom: A teacher’s guide to explaining the pro-family viewpoint in non-religious terms </em>(2003);</p>
<p><em>Reprobate Theology: the homosexual seduction of the American Church</em> (2003).</p>
<p><strong>Professional History</strong></p>
<p>Senior Pastor, <em>The Coffee House Church,</em> Springfield, MA, 2010-Present.</p>
<p>Founder and President, <em>Redemption Gate Mission Society</em>, Springfield, MA 2008-Present, <a href="file:///C:/Users/Peter%20LaBarbera/Downloads/www.redemptiongate.org"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.redemptiongate.org</span></a>;</p>
<p>Founder and President, <em>Abiding Truth Ministries </em>(parent-organization of <em>Defend The Family International</em>), 1997-Present, <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.defendthefamily.com</span></a>;</p>
<p>Co-Founder and Managing Partner, <em>Lively, Ackerman &amp; Cowles Law Firm</em>, 2003-2006.</p>
<p>Founder and Chairman, <em>The Pro-Family Law Center</em>, 1999-2006.</p>
<p>State Communications Director, <em>Oregon Citizens Alliance</em>, 1989-1997.</p>
<p><strong>Personal History </strong></p>
<p>Raised in a home shattered by the mental illness of his father, Scott Lively became an alcoholic at age 12, a drug addict by 14, was homeless at 16.  After sixteen years in the throes of addiction, several of them as a penniless drifter, Scott was miraculously healed and delivered in prayer in 1986, going on to become a leading Christian social activist and later an attorney and pastor. Scott is married to Anne, and has four grown sons.</p>
<p>You may reach Dr. Lively through his website at <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.defendthefamily.com</span></a> or by writing to Abiding Truth Ministries, PO Box 2373, Springfield MA 01101.</p>
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		<title>Judge Says No Right to Homosexuality in Armed Forces as Appeals Court Tosses Log Cabin Lawsuit</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>From the AP report:</em></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>One of the three panelists, Judge Diarmuid O&#8217;Scannlain, went out of his way in a concurring opinion to dispute that either the U.S. Constitution or the Supreme Court&#8217;s interpretation of it provided &#8220;a member of the armed forces (with) a constitutionally protected right to engage in homosexual acts or to state that he or she is a homosexual while continuing to serve in the military.&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>O&#8217;Scannlain also criticized the lower court judge who invalidated &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; last year, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips. He accused Phillips of willfully failing &#8220;to apply established law&#8221; so she could issue a ruling &#8220;that invalidated a considered congressional policy and imposed a wholly novel view of constitutional liberty on the entire United States.&#8221;</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p>Per the usual, the <strong><a href="http://www.logcabin.org/site/c.nsKSL7PMLpF/b.5468093/k.BE4C/Home.htm" target="_blank">Log Cabin Republicans</a></strong> put their pro-homosexuality activism way ahead of loyalty to the conservative Republican Party platform. (After all, for homosexual activists, it’s all about “me.”) The question now is: will the same conservative Republicans and GOP candidates who rightly pledge to repeal Obama-care also work to reinstate the homosexual military exclusion policy – or will they capitulate to the Left’s (and libertarians’) radical social agenda for the Armed Forces? If they surrender, pro-homosexual “diversity” policies will turn the Pentagon into massive “gay rights” bureaucracy that undermines religious freedom and the very conservative values that make our military strong. We shall see. —<strong> Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.aftah.org</span></a></strong></p>
<p>Excerpted from the Sept. 29, 2011 <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAYS_IN_MILITARY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2011-09-29-16-00-05"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Associated Press article</span></a> by Lisa Leff (emphasis added):</p>
<h4><strong>Appeals court tosses gays in military lawsuit </strong></h4>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; A federal appeals court refused Thursday to decide the constitutionality of the military&#8217;s now-repealed &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy banning openly gay troops, saying the issue has been resolved since Americans can enlist and serve in the armed forces without regard to sexual orientation.</p>
<p><span id="more-10112"></span>A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco tossed out a lawsuit that had challenged the military policy as a violation of gay service members&#8217; civil rights. In doing so, the appeals court also dismissed a Southern California trial judge&#8217;s year-old ruling that the policy was unconstitutional.</p>
<p>The gay rights group Log Cabin Republicans filed the lawsuit in 2004 challenging the policy. The group&#8217;s lawyer, Dan Woods, said he would ask the full 9th Circuit to review the panel&#8217;s decision.</p>
<p>The group recently argued the lower court ruling, which also barred enforcement of &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; should remain in effect despite this month&#8217;s repeal because future administrations and lawmakers could reintroduce a ban on gay service.</p>
<p>The three judges strongly disagreed in their Thursday opinion, saying the case is moot because there is nothing left to challenge regarding the policy enacted as section 654….</p>
<p>The panel specifically rejected Log Cabins&#8217; assertion that the appeals court should decide the underlying constitutional issues to prevent future limitations or outright bans on military service by gay and lesbian Americans….</p>
<p><strong>Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper</strong> said he was disappointed, noting that the favorable ruling his group obtained in the lower court played a major role in persuading policy makers to repeal &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;</p>
<p>Log Cabin Republicans v. United States said more than `don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; should be repealed &#8211; it stood for the fundamental constitutional rights of service members not to be discriminated against by the nation they serve,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;This decision by the 9th Circuit denies more than 14,000 discharged gay and lesbian service members an important means of obtaining justice for the wrong perpetuated against them under the ban, and leaves open the possibility of future violations of service members&#8217; rights.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>One of the three panelists, Judge Diarmuid O&#8217;Scannlain, went out of his way in a concurring opinion to dispute that either the U.S. Constitution or the Supreme Court&#8217;s interpretation of it provided &#8220;a member of the armed forces (with) a constitutionally protected right to engage in homosexual acts or to state that he or she is a homosexual while continuing to serve in the military.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>O&#8217;Scannlain also criticized the lower court judge who invalidated &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; last year, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips. He accused Phillips of willfully failing &#8220;to apply established law&#8221; so she could issue a ruling &#8220;that invalidated a considered congressional policy and imposed a wholly novel view of constitutional liberty on the entire United States.&#8221;</strong></p>
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		<title>San Francisco Values: White &#8216;Master,&#8217; Black &#8216;Slave&#8217; Adorn Cover of Folsom Street Fair 2011 Program Guide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks, if you want to understand how ridiculous, extreme and evil the self-described &#8220;Queer&#8221; movement can be, take a look at this freakish cover of the &#8220;Official Program Guide&#8221; for the annual San Francisco &#8220;Folsom Street Fair,&#8221; held last Sunday. As if the leather-leash-biting guy on the tricycle isn&#8217;t bad enough, notice the older white fellow (the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Folks, if you want to understand how ridiculous, extreme and evil the self-described &#8220;Queer&#8221; movement can be, take a look at this freakish cover of the &#8220;Official Program Guide&#8221; for the annual San Francisco &#8220;Folsom Street Fair,&#8221; held last Sunday. As if the leather-leash-biting guy on the tricycle isn&#8217;t bad enough, notice the older white fellow (the &#8220;Master&#8221;) with his younger, shackled African American (sexual) &#8220;Slave.&#8221; (So much for &#8220;liberation.&#8221;) We couldn&#8217;t attend this year&#8217;s Folsom event to report firsthand the full nudity and outrageous perversions that occur there [see these AFTAH reports from previous Folsoms: <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2009/09/29/slavery-and-public-nudity-return-to-san-franciscos-folsom-street-fair-2009/">2009</a>; <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2008/09/29/nudity-is-illegal-but-nudity-was-everywhere-at-folsom-street-fair/">2008</a>; <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2007/10/03/tolerance-gone-wild-in-san-francisco-as-cops-stand-by-amidst-folsom-street-fairs-public-perversions-and-widespread-nudity/">2007</a>; <strong>WARNING</strong>: they're very offensive]. But cultural artifacts such as this attest to the Pandora&#8217;s Box that is the modern homosexualist (&#8220;gay&#8221;) movement. And this is just the beginning of what we will report to you on the über-depraved &#8220;San Francisco values&#8221; on display at the city&#8217;s just-concluded &#8220;Leather Week,&#8221; which culminates every year in the deviant-sex fair of Folsom: &#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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		<title>LISTEN: AFTAH Interview with Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a Two-Part interview with Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern (R) [click HERE to listen]. It was pre-recorded August 31 and aired September 3, 2011. Sally Kern is Christian conservative Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma who was deluged with hate-mail and hate-calls after the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund (GLVF) published excerpts from a secretly-recorded 2008 speech she [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_9982" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Sally_Kern_book.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-9982" style="margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;" title="Sally_Kern_book" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Sally_Kern_book-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;The Stoning of Sally Kern: The Liberal Attack on Christian Conservatism -- and Why We Must Take a Stand&quot;</p></div>
<p>This is the first of a Two-Part interview with <strong><a href="http://www.okhouse.gov/District.aspx?District=84" target="_blank">Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern</a></strong> (R) [click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/9-3-11-Sally-Kern-Part-One.mp3">HERE to listen</a>]. It was pre-recorded August 31 and aired September 3, 2011. Sally Kern is Christian conservative Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma who was deluged with hate-mail and hate-calls after the <strong>Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund (GLVF</strong>) published excerpts from a secretly-recorded 2008 speech she gave in which she said, among other things, that &#8220;the homosexual agenda is destroying this nation,&#8221; and that it&#8217;s a bigger threat to America than terrorism. [Listen to GLVF's SELECTIVELY EDITED video excerpting Kern's speech <a href="http://www.victoryfund.org/files/listening.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.]</p>
<div id="attachment_9985" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 144px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Kern-Sally_thumbnail.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-9985" style="margin: 5px;" title="Kern, Sally_thumbnail" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Kern-Sally_thumbnail-134x150.jpg" alt="" width="134" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern</p></div>
<p>Sally talks about her new book, <strong>&#8220;The Stoning of Sally Kern,&#8221;</strong> <strong>[available from AFTAH at the discounted price of $20 including postage; send check specifying "Kern book" to: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Americans For Truth, PO Box 5522, Naperville, IL 60567-5522</span>.]</strong> She describes the day, March 7, 2008, that changed her life forever &#8212; when thousands of hostile homosexual e-mails flooded her inbox. (Angry phone calls jammed her office phone system, and then started coming to her home.) Ironically, homosexual militants who denounced Sally&#8217;s alleged &#8220;hate&#8221; subjected her and her family to the sort of vicious attacks that most Americans could hardly conceive of &#8212; including publishing false reports that her son Jesse was a homosexual &#8212; and smearing Sally&#8217;s husband, <strong>Pastor Steve Kern</strong>, as a past member of the KKK. Sally discusses the role of her and her family&#8217;s Christian faith in sustaining them in the face of the hate-campaign, and AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera praises Kern for not backing down in the face of such evil attacks.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Special Appeal by Peter LaBarbera, President, Americans For Truth Dear AFTAH Supporter, In this David-and-Goliath fight against the Homosexual Lobby – which is 1,000 times better funded and organized than the ragtag band of pro-family warriors fighting the normalization of homosexuality &#8212;  you might wonder if supporting an organization like Americans For Truth really [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Special Appeal by Peter LaBarbera, President, Americans For Truth</span></span></strong></p>
<div id="attachment_9957" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Walt_Heyer_male1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9957" title="Walt_Heyer_male" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Walt_Heyer_male1.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Walt Heyer, here shown as he is today living as a man, is helping gender-confused men and women avoid the mistake he made of undergoing &quot;gender reassignment surgery.&quot; AFTAH&#39;s four-part interview with Walt greatly expanded awareness of his ministry.</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear AFTAH Supporter,</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">In this David-and-Goliath fight against the Homosexual Lobby – which is 1,000 times better funded and organized than the ragtag band of pro-family warriors fighting the normalization of homosexuality &#8212;  you might wonder if supporting an organization like Americans For Truth really does any good.  You bet it does!  Please read below for two examples of how YOUR gifts to AFTAH make a big difference. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PLEASE HELP AFTAH MAKE A DIFFERENCE:  </span></span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">1.</span>  </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Make you gift of $250, $100, $50, $25 or whatever you can give to </span></strong><a href="http://www.americansfortruth.com/donate/"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">www.americansfortruth.com/donate/</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, or mail your check to: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Americans For Truth, PO Box 5522, Naperville, IL 60567-5522</span>.  </span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">2.</span>  </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sign up for our <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/23/moody-pastor-dr-erwin-lutzer-to-keynote-aftah-banquet-october-15/" target="_blank">dinner-banquet</a> Saturday, Oct. 15</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"> – at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, IL &#8212; featuring revered Moody senior pastor Dr. Erwin Lutzer.  Tickets are just $10/person (and $20/person at the door).  Buy 5 tickets ($50) or 10 tickets ($100) for your friends and family so they too can attend this exciting Truth Telling event!  (RSVP to </span></span></strong><a href="mailto:americansfortruth@gmail.com"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">americansfortruth@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.)  </span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">3.</span>  S</strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">end this e-mail to your network of family, friends and co-workers, introduce them to AFTAH,  and ask them to consider supporting our life-changing work;  </span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">4.</span>  </strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pray for AFTAH as we prepare for some big changes that will lay the foundation for the long-term health of our VITAL ministry. </span></span></strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Transsexuals Need Christ, NOT “Sex Change” Surgery</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Recently I had the pleasure of doing an in-depth, four-part radio interview with <strong>Walt Heyer</strong>, a Christian man and FORMER transsexual who once lived as a “woman” named <strong>“Laura”</strong> (see before-and-after photos above).  Walt had the Gender Reassignment Surgery – yes, the one that makes men wince at the mere thought of it.  (It is frequently called a “sex-change” operation even though, as Walt stresses, a person cannot <em>change</em> their biological sex.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Walt discovered too late that finally “becoming Laura,” as it were, through a body-disfiguring operation didn’t solve his severe “gender” problem.  But thank God he ultimately DID find healing through the grace of the Lord &#8212; who labored through faithful and loving Christians who stood by Walt and helped restore him to the man he was created to be.  Now Walt has dedicated the rest of his life to helping others avoid this awful surgery and the “sex-change regret” that he had; instead, he directs them to the healthy CHANGE available through Jesus Christ.</span></p>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Walt_Heyer_female.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-9949" title="Walt_Heyer_female" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/09/Walt_Heyer_female-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Walt Heyer as &#8220;Laura,&#8221; his former fantasy-female identity. Heyer underwent radical &#8220;gender reassignment surgery&#8221; but now warns others not to undergo the disfiguring operation.</dd>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span id="more-9946"></span>I am humbled by Walt’s courage in reaching out to others in the love of Christ – without bitterness and self-pity – after all he has been through (including homosexual molestation and a grandmother who dressed him up as a girl when he was a young boy).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>AFTAH is all about getting out TRUTH in a culture filled with lies, and so I wanted to give Walt maximum exposure.</strong>  You can hear all four interviews with Walt starting with <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/07/19/aftah-interview-with-ex-transsexual-walt-heyer-part-one/" target="_blank">Part 1 HERE</a> (and please buy Walt’s books and SPREAD THE WORD about his and his <a href="http://www.SexChangeRegret.com" target="_blank">important ministry</a>).  I know, you’re busy and you don’t have time to listen to an interview – please do me a favor: FIND 46 MINUTES and listen to at least one of the segments; you will be blessed. (Go <a href="http://www.aftah.org/americans-for-truth-hour/">HERE</a> for the <strong>Americans For Truth Hour Radio archive page</strong>.)  </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The other day I received a note from Walt’s wife Kaycee thanking me for the interviews, which she said have significantly driven up traffic to Walt’s outreach websites, </span><a href="http://www.sexchangeregret.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">www.SexChangeRegret.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="http://www.tradingmysorrows.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">www.TradingMySorrows.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">.  Kaycee wrote: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I want to thank you for the incredible promotion you&#8217;ve done for Walt and his message with the four radio interviews and the [notices on the AFTAH] website. It has had a big impact on the traffic our sites receive, and I know the Lord will use it to save others from this devastating procedure and to make an impact on public opinion and legislation.</span></span></strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What a blessing it was to receive this letter knowing that Walt’s personal experience will benefit others in crisis!  AFTAH also received an e-mail from a struggling “transgender” man who had heard one of the interviews with Walt and was giving serious thought to Walt’s warnings that “sex-change” is not the answer to gender confusion.  Praise God!  </span></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you understand that thanks to your support of AFTAH, there will be men who CHANGE THEIR MINDS and AVOID the incomprehensible mistake of having their God-given genitalia destroyed – and women who will not go through the insanity of having their HEALTHY BREASTS surgically removed as part of a deluded quest to “become” a man?!  (And I have seen firsthand such “post-chest-surgery” young women showing off their “manly” flat chests – it is horrifying.)</span></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">We give God the glory, but I feel very good that AFTAH is helping men and women find Truth and avoid such SATANIC and DESTRUCTIVE mistakes in their lives.  If you support AFTAH, you should feel good, too.</span>  Ideas have consequences, and Truth matters.  Confused, broken and often victimized men and women are literally dying – or destroying their bodies – in pursuit of the LIES and MYTHS propagated by the radical LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) movement.  </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Americans For Truth is light house shining its bright beacon over a dark and stormy sea of sexual and gender confusion created by the media, academia, Hollywood and the corporate world.  All of these forces are capitulating to anti-Christian “gay” ideology, which claims that homosexuality and gender confusion are about “civil rights” rather than destructive and sinful – yet changeable &#8212; behaviors.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Homosexual-Pedophile Connection</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Then, in the biggest story AFTAH ever broke, <em>Lambda Report</em> exposed that a U.S.-funded United Nations agency harbored the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which included NAMBLA and other pro-pedophile groups as members.  I debated homosexual pedophile activist </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Andriette"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Bill Andriette</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> (who conveniently worked for a popular “gay” travel magazine) on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”  Our story led to legislation sponsored by the late, great <strong>Sen. Jesse Helms</strong> (R-NC) and passed by the United States Senate cutting $119 million in UN funds and stipulating that no U.S. monies could go to any agency with links to pedophile groups.  The bill was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994 and remains on the books today. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Thanks to Americans For Truth, it’s much more difficult for pedophiles to gain a foothold at the United Nations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Skip forward 17 years.  Since I first began writing about the “tolerance” that some homosexual activists have for man-child sex (“intergenerational relationships”), the pederasty problem has only gotten worse.  Recently I was stunned to examine the <a href="http://www.b4uact.org/" target="_blank">“B4U-Act” pro-pedophile website</a> for the first time.  These corrupt academicians want to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/25/firsthand-report-on-b4u-act-conference-for-minor-attracted-persons-aims-at-normalizing-pedophilia/">recast pedophiles as <strong>“Minor-Attracted Persons”</strong> (MAPs)</a> and duplicate the successful “gay” strategy of creating sympathy for the poor, reviled “MAPs” who are “discriminated” against because of their “sexual orientation.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Who could make this stuff up?  As I wrote in a previous e-mail, this is like NAMBLA with a PhD and a marketing plan.  And parents, know this: they’re very serious. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">What is AFTAH’s response: shine the light of truth on these organized perverts who lust after children. (And no, I’m not going to stop using the term “Perverts” to curry favor with the Politically Correct Thought Police.)  Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/31/aftah-interview-with-liberty-counsels-matt-barber-exposing-pedophile-conference/">HERE</a> for my interview <strong>AFTAH Board Member Matt Barber</strong>, who courageously attended the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/25/firsthand-report-on-b4u-act-conference-for-minor-attracted-persons-aims-at-normalizing-pedophilia/">“B4U-Act” pro-pedophile conference</a> with <strong>Dr. Judith Reisman</strong> (with whom AFTAH also did a four-part interview) to expose it to the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">AFTAH tries to convey at least part of the evil of the organized Homosexual Movement, and we don’t shy away from telling the hard truths (like this <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/05/keep-the-gay-blood-ban-california-aids-flier-exposes-extreme-risks-of-homosexual-sex/" target="_blank">awful California flier</a> that reveals the shocking realities of the health hazards of vile “gay” sex acts: WARNING: it’s revolting).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">These days, it seems almost everyone is “going gay” in some way or another by abandoning the historic biblical ethic on this sin issue by caving in to homosexualist pressure.  Even conservative icon <strong>Ann Coulter</strong> joined the Advisory Board of <strong>GOProud</strong>, a “gay” Republican group, and she inexplicably gave the “Queer” Lobby a pass in her new book “Demonic.”  (It&#8217;s a curious omission: what’s more ‘demonic’ than the rise of homosexuality in just 60 years from an anti-social sex taboo and mental disorder to a powerful special interest lobby that dominates Hollywood, the media and increasingly the rest of society – and which threatens to negate our religious liberties?! )</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Americans For Truth will never compromise on eternal Christian truths, even as we reach out in Gospel love to homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders.  With your help, AFTAH will go on educating people on the reality of homosexuality and “gay” activism – even shocking, ugly spectacles that are stranger than fiction – like the B4U-Act conference and San Francisco’s annual, nudity-filled <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2009/09/29/slavery-and-public-nudity-return-to-san-franciscos-folsom-street-fair-2009/" target="_blank">“Folsom Street Fair.”</a>   Because in a culture seduced and corrupted by the Big “Gay” Lie, people need the liberating Truth more than ever.  Thank you for standing with AFTAH in these tough financial times, and making our work possible. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sincerely in Christ,</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Peter LaBarbera</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">President, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, </span></strong><a href="http://www.aftah.org/"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">www.aftah.org</span></strong></a><strong></strong><br />
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">2.</span>  </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sign up for our <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/08/23/moody-pastor-dr-erwin-lutzer-to-keynote-aftah-banquet-october-15/" target="_blank">dinner-banquet</a> Saturday, Oct. 15</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"> – at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, IL &#8212; featuring revered Moody senior pastor Dr. Erwin Lutzer.  Tickets are just $10/person (and $20/person at the door).  Buy 5 tickets ($50) or 10 tickets ($100) for your friends and family for this exciting Truth Telling event!  (RSVP to </span></span></strong><a href="mailto:americansfortruth@gmail.com"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">americansfortruth@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.)  </span></span></strong></p>
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		<title>LISTEN: AFTAH Interview with Walt Heyer &#8211; Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth and final part of our interview with Walt Heyer [listen HERE], a former transsexual who went through a body-disfiguring &#8220;gender reassignment surgery&#8221; (to live as &#8221;Laura&#8221;) only to regret it &#8211; and ultimately returned to his God-given gender as a male. This interview was pre-recorded and aired August 20, 2011. AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_9901" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 169px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Walt_Heyer_male1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9901" title="Walt_Heyer_male" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Walt_Heyer_male1.jpg" alt="" width="159" height="253" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Walt Heyer as the man he is today -- living in his God-given gender.</p></div>
<p>This is the fourth and final part of our interview with <strong>Walt Heyer [listen <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/8-20-11-Walt-Heyer-Part-Four.mp3">HERE</a>]</strong>, a former transsexual who went through a body-disfiguring &#8220;gender reassignment surgery&#8221; (to live as &#8221;Laura&#8221;) only to regret it &#8211; and ultimately returned to his God-given gender as a male. This interview was pre-recorded and aired August 20, 2011. AFTAH President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong> and Heyer discusss his book, <strong>&#8220;Paper Genders: Pulling the Mask Off the Transgender Phenomenom.&#8221;</strong> The book describes the extremism and fraud of the early &#8220;fathers&#8221; of the &#8220;sex-change&#8221; phenomenon &#8211; including <strong>Dr. John Money</strong>, who said it was not necessarily &#8220;pathological&#8221; for a 10- or 11-year-old boy to be in a sexual relationship with a man in his twenties or thirties. Money also covered up the failures of early transsexual operations in his zeal to popularize the idea of &#8220;sex-change&#8221; in the media. (Heyer emphasizes that it is impossible to change one&#8217;s sex.) LaBarbera reads from several letters found in Heyer&#8217;s book from men who regretted their &#8220;gender-change&#8221; surgeries.</p>
<p>You can order the book through Heyer&#8217;s website, <a href="http://www.sexchangeregret.com">www.sexchangeregret.com</a>. (Heyer&#8217;s autobiography, &#8220;Trading My Sorrows: A True Story of Betrayals, Bad Choices, Love and the Journey Home,&#8221; is available on his site, <a href="http://www.TradingMySorrows.com">www.TradingMySorrows.com</a>.) We encourage you to promote Walt&#8217;s  amazing story &#8212; to get out his message that destruction of one&#8217;s sexual organs is NOT the answer to gender confusion, and that many people who undergo such surgeries come to regret them.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is Part Three of my interview with Walt Heyer, a man who left the confused world of &#8220;transsexuality&#8221; &#8212; after he had gone through &#8220;gender reassignment surgery.&#8221; In this discussion &#8212; which aired August 13, 2011, we discuss Walt&#8217;s autobiographical book, &#8220;Trading My Sorrows,&#8221; and how faithful Christians reached out to him in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_9785" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Walt_Heyer_female.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-9785 " title="Walt_Heyer_female" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Walt_Heyer_female-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This is Walt in his fantasy identity as &quot;Laura.&quot; Heyer&#39;s grandmother dressed him up as a girl when he was a young boy.</p></div>
<p>The following is Part Three of my interview with Walt Heyer, a man who left the confused world of &#8220;transsexuality&#8221; &#8212; after he had gone through &#8220;gender reassignment surgery.&#8221; In this discussion &#8212; which aired August 13, 2011, we discuss Walt&#8217;s autobiographical book, &#8220;Trading My Sorrows,&#8221; and how faithful Christians reached out to him in the grace of God. Heyer&#8217;s websites are <a href="http://www.TradingMySorrows.com">www.TradingMySorrows.com</a> and <a href="http://www.SexRegretInfo.com">www.SexChangeRegret.com</a>. Go here to listen to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/07/19/aftah-interview-with-ex-transsexual-walt-heyer-part-one/" target="_blank">Part One</a> and <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/07/26/aftah-interview-with-former-transsexual-walt-heyer-part-two/" target="_blank">Part Two</a> of this fascinating interview. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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		<title>Keep the Gay Blood Ban &#8211; California AIDS Flier Exposes Extreme Risks of Homosexual Sex</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTAH launches &#8220;Keep the Gay Blood Ban&#8221; informational campaign: &#8220;Anal sex is the riskiest sexual activity for getting/spreading HIV.&#8221; WARNING: Graphic and Vulgar Descriptions of Homosexual Acts; NOT Suitable for Children TAKE ACTION: Share this disturbing information with your adult friends, family and co-workers &#8212; as well as your U.S. Senators and Congressman [Senate 202-224-3121; House: 202-225-3121; [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">WARNING:</span> Graphic and Vulgar Descriptions of Homosexual Acts; NOT Suitable for Children</strong></span></div>
<div id="attachment_9638" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 270px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Rimming-Cal-AIDS-Flier.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-9638" title="Rimming - Cal AIDS Flier" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Rimming-Cal-AIDS-Flier.png" alt="" width="260" height="319" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">RIMMING: Section on &quot;Rimming&quot; from flier produced for the California HIV/AIDS Hotline. &quot;Rimming&quot; is a slang term for oral-anal sexual stimulation, as depicted by the drawing above. The text reads: &quot;You cannot get HIV from rimming. You can get Hepatitis A (but you can get vaccinated against it), shigella, herpes, and intestinal parasites. To reduce your chances of getting sick, clean ass before you eat it, or use a dental dam as a barrier between your mouth and your partner&#39;s ass.&quot;</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">TAKE ACTION:</span> Share this disturbing information with your adult friends, family and co-workers &#8212; as well as your U.S. Senators and Congressman [Senate 202-224-3121; House: 202-225-3121; <a href="http://www.congress.org">www.congress.org</a>].  Urge your representatives in Congress to put the safety of Americans &#8212; and a pristine blood supply &#8212; ahead of the demands of the selfish Homosexuality Lobby.  Also urge your representatives to launch a Congressional investigation into the health hazards of homosexual behaviors (just as the government <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&amp;pageId=300089" target="_blank">studied the dangers of smoking</a>).  We need the government to regulate the commercialized &#8220;gay&#8221; sex industry (e.g. bathhouses) &#8211; which fosters anonymous perversions and a reckless culture of promiscuity that spreads diseases and ultimately endangers innocents. </strong></div>
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<span style="color: #000080;"><strong>&#8220;Infection with these parasites was a likely effect of anal intercourse, which was apt to put a man in contact with his partner&#8217;s fecal matter, and was virtually a certainty through the then-popular practice of rimming, which medical journals politely call anal-oral intercourse.&#8221; </strong></span>&#8211; <em>Homosexual reporter Randy Shilts, who died of AIDS at 42,writing in his book, </em>And the Band Played On<em>, pp. 18-19.</em></div>
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<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p></div>
<p>Here we reproduce portions of a <a href="http://www.asianhealthservices.org/docs/top_and_bottom2.PDF" target="_blank">flier</a> produced by the Asian Health Services and funded by the California AIDS Clearinghouse &#8212; as AFTAH launches its <strong>&#8220;Keep the Gay Blood Ban&#8221; (KGB²) campaign</strong> against renewed lobby efforts to open up the U.S. blood supply to homosexuality-practicing men. <strong>Sen. John Kerry</strong> (D-MA), one-time Democratic candidate for president, has stepped up his efforts to <a href="http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e51ccb4-b8bf-48a8-81f2-5ac908149785" target="_blank">overturn the <strong>Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s (FDA)</strong></a> current ban on blood donations from any &#8216;man who has had sex with a man&#8217; (MSM) since 1977 (and any woman who has had sex with such a man).</div>
<p>In the House, Sen. Kerry is being aided by <strong>Rep. Mike Quigley</strong> (D-Chicago), who represents the homosexual Boystown neighborhood in Chicago, and the two recently <a href="http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/07/27/hhs-to-study-lifting-ban-on-gay-blood-donors/" target="_blank">applauded Obama&#8217;s HHS</a> (Department of Health and Human Services) for taking steps toward lifting the homosexual blood ban.</div>
<p><strong>Sadly, Sen. Kerry and others crusading against the homosexual blood ban do so on the basis that the ban is mainly about &#8221;anti-gay discrimination&#8221; rather than preserving public health.</strong> Kerry <a href="http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=cea319fc-c304-4f56-a484-d79584a06224" target="_blank">previously cited</a> the advent of legalized homosexual &#8220;marriage&#8221; as mitigating against the lifetime homosexual blood ban. Yet few seem interested in investigating &#8212; much less restricting &#8212; the actual high-risk homosexual practices and deviant behaviors depicted and described in this (pro-&#8221;gay&#8217;) flier, which crassly helps explain the immense heath risks of male homosexuality. We excerpt this flier &#8212; vulgar slang references and all &#8212; to help educate the public as to how this lifestyle is so dangerous that men who practice it must be kept from the nation&#8217;s blood supply.</div>
<p><span id="more-9636"></span><strong>The politically incorrect reality is that male-on-male sex and the &#8220;gay&#8221; sexual culture are extremely high-risk due directly to the dangerously perverse and unsanitary acts &#8211; and unprecedented promiscuity &#8212; practiced by &#8220;men who have sex with men.&#8221;</strong> Such behaviors fueled the AIDS crisis in the first place, as documented by homosexual reporter <strong>Randy Shilts</strong> in his book &#8220;And the Band Played On&#8221; (1987) [Click <a href="#shilts">HERE</a> to see excerpt from Shilts at bottom.]</div>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>AFTAH will present raw homosexual reality</strong></span></div>
<p>As part of our <strong>&#8220;Keep the Gay Blood Ban&#8221; (KGB²)</strong> campaign, AFTAH will present the reality of homosexual BEHAVIOR  &#8211; using &#8220;gay&#8221; and pro-homosexual sources (largely uncensored). Much of it &#8212; like this California AIDS flier &#8211; will be shocking to the uninitiated, but we hope to provide an alternative to the dominant pro-homosexual political culture narrative that invariably excludes the single-most important factor in this debate &#8212; and any discussion surrounding homosexuality: <strong>homosexual behavior.</strong></div>
<div id="attachment_9643" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 449px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Sex-Risks-HIV-and-Tops-Cal-AIDS-Flier.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9643" title="Anal Sex Risks -HIV - and Tops - Cal AIDS Flier" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Sex-Risks-HIV-and-Tops-Cal-AIDS-Flier-300x222.png" alt="" width="439" height="377" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">RISKS OF ANAL SEX. Click on graphic to enlarge. California AIDS flier discusses risks of anal sex. TOP PANEL READS, in part: &quot;Can I get HIV as a top? It&#39;s less likely but, yes, it&#39;s possible to get HIV by topping, especially if you regularly f**k without a condom. Studies show that men with foreskins -- ED. NOTE - READ: uncircumcised men -- are more likely to contract HIV than men without.&quot; BOTTOM PANEL READS, in part: &quot;Anal sex is the riskiest sexual activity for getting/spreading HIV. That risk goes up if you have more sex partners, if you f**k without a condom, or if you have sex with someone who has HIV. Of course, you can&#39;t always know if your partners have HIV. That&#39;s why some men choose to assume that all their sex partners are HIV-positive....If you&#39;re using drugs like poppers or meth, you should know that f**cking while high can increase the likelihood of anal tearing, which also puts you at higher risk for HIV and other STDs.&quot;</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Why aren&#8217;t teenage boys being warned?</strong></span></div>
<p>One other point: this <a href="http://www.asianhealthservices.org/docs/top_and_bottom2.PDF" target="_blank">flier</a> and similarly frank homosexual literature conveys the harsh, shocking realities of homosexual sexual behavior. When teenage and even pre-teen boys idealistically embrace &#8220;being gay&#8221; as &#8220;who they are&#8221; &#8212; encouraged by pro-homosexual adults and the ubiquitous pro-&#8221;gay&#8221; messages in pop culture &#8211; do they have any inkling of the serious and even deadly health repercussions of this lifestyle choice?</div>
<p>When Hollywood elites glamorize homosexual teen male romances on programs like &#8220;Glee,&#8221; [see Glee's infamous teenage boy homosexual kiss <a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/5776377-glees-big-gay-kiss" target="_blank">HERE</a>] shouldn&#8217;t they include warnings about the far less glamorous side of same-sex conduct? <strong>Shouldn&#8217;t boys embracing homosexuality be forewarned about the disproportionate risk of HIV, hepatitis, anal warts, herpes, etc., &#8212; all linked to unnatural homosexual behaviors?</strong></div>
<p>Also, although many homosexual activists surely will object to this report on the basis that not all homosexual men are promiscuous or practice dangerous behaviors like sodomy and rimming &#8212; what is curious is that the United States government &#8211; even when led by Republicans &#8212; has taken precious little action against the &#8220;gay&#8221; sex industry and LGBT activism that facilitate the very promiscuity that has a long history of causing and spreading disease. Concerned more with decrying &#8220;homophobia&#8221; than encouraging public-health-promoting action against homosexual sex clubs, the the federal CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left the &#8220;gay&#8221; bathhouse and sex-club industry untouched, and so it flourishes. Indeed, even in the CDC&#8217;s home city of Atlanta, three anonymous <a href="http://atlanta.gaycities.com/bathhouses/" target="_blank">homosexual sex establishments</a> operate without fear. Some &#8216;control and prevention.&#8217;&#8230;</div>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>FDA explains homosexual blood ban</strong></span></div>
<p>The following are excerpts from an <a href="http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/bloodbloodproducts/questionsaboutblood/ucm108186.htm" target="_blank">FDA fact sheet</a> explaining the homosexual male blood donation ban (emphasis added):</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Men who have had sex with other men, at any time since 1977 (the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States) are currently deferred as blood donors. This is because <strong>MSM are, as a group, at increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and certain other infections that can be transmitted by transfusion</strong>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A history of male-to-male sex is associated with an increased risk for the presence of and transmission of certain infectious diseases, including HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.</strong> FDA&#8217;s policy is intended to protect all people who receive blood transfusions from an increased risk of exposure to potentially infected blood and blood products.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence (the total number of cases of a disease that are present in a population at a specific point in time) 60 times higher than the general population, <strong>800 times higher than first time blood donors and 8000 times higher than repeat blood donors</strong> (American Red Cross). Even taking into account that 75% of HIV infected men who have sex with men already know they are HIV positive and would be unlikely to donate blood, the HIV <strong>prevalence in potential donors with history of male sex with males is 200 times higher than first time blood donors and 2000 times higher than repeat blood donors</strong>.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">What will Obama&#8217;s HHS do? </span></strong></span></div>
<div id="attachment_9673" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Sex-and-Bleeding-Cal-AIDS-Flier.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9673" title="Anal Sex and Bleeding - Cal AIDS Flier" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Sex-and-Bleeding-Cal-AIDS-Flier-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">ANAL SEX AND BLEEDING. Panel reads: &quot;Is it normal to bleed after anal sex? Bleeding immediately after anal sex is common for many men. Blood may come from hemorrhoids, a tear in the anal lining, polyps or tumors in the colon, or some type of infection. The seriousness of anal bleeding can only be assessed by a doctor. If you continue to bleed for more than a few days after anal sex, contact a clinic.&quot;</p></div>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Sen.  Kerry plans to work closely with the Administration on repealing the &#8220;gay&#8221; blook donation ban. In his statement against what he calls the &#8220;outdated&#8221; homosexual blood ban, Kerry states: “It’s a very positive step that HHS is meeting this week to reconsider the lifetime ban on gay Americans donating blood.  The medical and scientific communities have been crystal clear that there is no longer any scientific evidence to warrant this policy&#8230;I’ve been working closely with members from both chambers, and we look forward to hearing HHS’s recommendations and working with the Administration to ensure that an outdated policy is brought into line with the world we live in today.”</span></div>
<p>The FDA contradicts Kerry&#8217;s claim that there is &#8220;no longer any scientific evidence&#8221; supporting the ban. It continues:</p></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Men who have had sex with men account for the <strong>largest single group of blood donors who are found HIV positive by blood donor testing</strong>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Blood donor testing using current advanced technologies has greatly reduced the risk of HIV transmission but cannot yet detect all infected donors or prevent all transmission by transfusions. While today&#8217;s highly sensitive tests fail to detect less than one in a million HIV infected donors, it is important to remember that in the US there are over 20 million transfusions of blood, red cell concentrates, plasma or platelets every year. Therefore, <strong>even a failure rate of 1 in a million can be significant if there is an increased risk of undetected HIV in the blood donor population.</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Detection of HIV infection is particularly challenging when very low levels of virus are present in the blood for example during the so-called &#8220;window period&#8221;. The &#8220;window period&#8221; is the time between being infected with HIV and the ability of an HIV test to detect HIV in an infected person.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>FDA&#8217;s MSM policy reduces the likelihood that a person would unknowingly donate blood during the &#8220;window period&#8221; of infection.</strong> This is important because the rate of new infections in MSM is higher than in the general population and current blood donors.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Collection of blood from persons with an increased risk of HIV infection also presents an added risk if blood were to be accidentally given to a patient in error either before testing is completed or following a positive test. Such medical errors occur very rarely, but given that there are over 20 million transfusions every year, in the USA, they can occur. That is one more reason why FDA and other regulatory authorities work to assure that there are multiple safeguards, not just testing.</span></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Several scientific models show there would be a small but definite increased risk to people who receive blood transfusions if FDA&#8217;s MSM policy were changed and that preventable transfusion transmission of HIV could occur as a result.</span></strong></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">No alternate set of donor eligibility criteria (even including practice of safe sex or a low number of lifetime partners) has yet been found to reliably identify MSM who are not at increased risk for HIV or certain other transfusion transmissible infections.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Today, the risk of getting HIV from a transfusion or a blood product has been nearly eliminated in the United States. Improved procedures, donor screening for risk of infection and laboratory testing for evidence of HIV infection have made the United States blood supply safer than ever. While appreciative and supportive of the desire of potential blood donors to contribute to the health of others, FDA&#8217;s first obligation is to assure the safety of the blood supply and protect the health of blood recipients.</span></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Men who have sex with men also have an increased risk of having other infections that can be transmitted to others by blood transfusion. For example, infection with the Hepatitis B virus is about 5-6 times more common and Hepatitis C virus infections are about 2 times more common in men who have sex with other men than in the general population. Additionally, men who have sex with men have an increased incidence and prevalence of Human Herpes Virus-8 (HHV-8). HHV-8 causes a cancer called Kaposi&#8217;s sarcoma in immunocompromised individuals.</span></strong></li>
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<p><a name="shilts"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">The past is prologue</span></strong></span></div>
<div id="attachment_9674" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 249px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Warts-Cal-AIDS-Flier.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9674" title="Anal Warts - Cal AIDS Flier" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Anal-Warts-Cal-AIDS-Flier-183x300.png" alt="" width="239" height="356" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">ANAL WARTS, HPV and ANAL CANCER. Click on graphic to enlarge. Panel reads, in part: &quot;What are anal warts? They&#39;re fleshy, painless growths that can appear in and around the anus. Warts are caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). It&#39;s estimated that the majority of sexually-active gay men have already been exposed to HPV. You can&#39;t get tested for HPV, but there are a few things you can do. If you have warts, get them treated -- you&#39;ll be more comfortable, and you&#39;ll be less likely to spread the virus to your partners. HPV has also been found to be associated with anal cancer. Even if you don&#39;t have warts, you can still care a strain of HPV that causes cancer. If you bottom -- ED. NOTE: this means serving as the recipient &quot;bottom&quot; in anal sodomy -- ask your doctor for an anal Pap smear every few years to check for early signs of cancer (yes, men can get Paps too!)....&quot;</p></div>
<p>The connection between disease and unnatural &#8212; and bizarrely perverse &#8212; homosexual acts goes back to the roots of the &#8220;gay revolution&#8221; in America. Randy Shilts, who himself died of AIDS at 42, wrote of pre-1980 &#8220;gay-liberated&#8221; San Francisco in his book, <em>And the Band Played On</em>:</div>
<blockquote><p>
The fight against venereal diseases was proving a Sisyphean task&#8230;.In San Francisco, two-thirds of gay men had suffered the debilitating disease [hepatitis B]. It was now proven statistically that a gay man had one chance in five of being infected with the hepatitis B virus within twelve months of stepping off the bus into a typical urban gay scene. Within five years, infection was a virtual certainty.</strong></div>
<p>Another problem was enteric diseases, like amebiasis and giardiasis, caused by organisms that lodged themselves in the intestinal tracts of gay men with alarming frequency. At the New York Gay Men&#8217;s Health Project&#8230;30 percent of the patients suffered from gastrointestinal parasites. In San Francisco, incidence of the &#8220;Gay Bowel Syndrome,&#8221; as it was called in medical journals, had increased by 8,000 percent after 1973. Infection with these parasites was a likely effect of anal intercourse, which was apt to put a man in contact with his partner&#8217;s fecal matter, and was virtually a certainty through the then-popular practice of rimming, which medical journals politely call anal-oral intercourse.</strong></div>
<p>What was troubling was that nobody in the gay community seemed to care about these waves of infection&#8230;</strong></strong></div>
<p>[The] commercialization of gay sex was all part of the scene, an aspect of the homosexual life-style in which the epidemics of venereal disease, hepatitis, and enteric disorders thrived. The gay liberation movement of the 1970s had spawned a business of bathhouses and sex clubs&#8230;[S]ex was part and parcel of political liberation. The popular bestseller <em>The Joy of Gay Sex</em>, for example, called rimming the &#8220;prime taste treat in sex,&#8221; while a leftist Toronto newspaper published a story on &#8220;rimming as a revolutionary act.&#8221; <em>&#8211; Shilts, &#8220;And the Band Played On,&#8221; pp. 18-19</em></strong></strong></div>
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<p>Revolutionary, indeed. And as you can see from this <a href="http://www.asianhealthservices.org/docs/top_and_bottom2.PDF" target="_blank">current AIDS flier</a>, the revolution lives on.</div>
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		<title>Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Defends Marcus Bachmann&#8217;s Right to Counsel Unhappy Homosexuals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assails homosexual hate group Truth Wins out and &#8220;gay&#8221; lobby&#8217;s harassment of ex-gays The following is reprinted from PFOX&#8217;s (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) website. Greg Quinlan was a presenter at both AFTAH Truth Academies: I Am a Man By Greg Quinlan Why have gay activists instigated media attention over ex-gays and the [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/greg-quinlan.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9603" title="greg-quinlan" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/greg-quinlan.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="314" /></a>The following is reprinted from <a href="http://pfox-exgays.blogspot.com/2011/07/michelle-bachman-and-ex-gays.html" target="_blank">PFOX&#8217;s (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) website</a>. Greg Quinlan was a presenter at both AFTAH Truth Academies:</p>
<h4><strong>I Am a Man</strong></h4>
<p>By Greg Quinlan</p>
<p>Why have gay activists instigated media attention over ex-gays and the husband of Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann?</p>
<p>Apparently, Mr. Bachmann, who has a PhD in clinical psychology, operates several counseling centers which also offer services to homosexual clients seeking to overcome unwanted same-sex attractions.  But because even one ex-gay proves that homosexual behavior is not innate or immutable, the gay lobby’s fear of their former members results in false claims and attacks aimed at preventing homosexuals from exercising their right to self-determination. They cannot bear to have even one homosexual leave homosexuality, hence their outrage at Dr. Bachmann.</p>
<p>I know because I am ex-gay myself.  I suffer more harassment as a former homosexual than I ever did as an out and proud homosexual.</p>
<p>The ex-gay community includes thousands of former homosexuals like myself who benefited from counseling.  We did not choose our homosexual feelings, but we did exercise our right to seek help to change those feelings.  As a registered nurse, I saw hundreds of gay men die of AIDS before I finally left the gay lifestyle.</p>
<p>Contrary to the myths being generated by outraged homosexuals, counseling for unwanted same-sex attractions is not prohibited by any medical association.  Unhappy homosexuals are not children in need of parental permission and can freely choose their own therapeutic treatment just like anyone else.</p>
<p>The Bachmann incident demonstrates that as homosexuals gain more civil rights, heterosexuals are losing theirs.  Because gays are a wealthy and politically powerful minority, they claim access to media attention, political power and corporate influence that middle America does not have.</p>
<p><span id="more-9601"></span>Dependent on the wealth of the gay community for his election and reelection campaigns, President Obama vigorously implements gay, bisexual and transgender policies at every level of the federal government, yet omits the only unpopular status of sexual orientation &#8212; that of ex-gay.  But to his credit, Obama refused to cave in to homosexuals when they demanded he remove ex-gay singer Donnie McClurkin from a campaign fundraiser.</p>
<p>President Obama needs to demonstrate that kind of courage once more, and support those who change their sexual orientation as much as he supports those who change their gender. But who will ask him? A jittery media fearful of gay reprisals remain silent, a further testament to homosexual influence and power.</p>
<p>While the media look the other way, the ex-gay community is being harassed and publicly denounced by unforgiving gay activists because of our unpopular sexual orientation.</p>
<p>Wayne Besen of the hate group Truth Wins Out, and other modern day Sauls, stalk and expose ‘out’ ex-gays in a negative light to ensure that they retreat back into the closet.  Lambda Legal supports the establishment of GLBT Centers at public universities but blocks any attempt at ex-gay equal access.  Corporate shareholder resolutions to include ex-gays in anti-discrimination policies are repeatedly defeated by the gay community.</p>
<p>The Human Rights Campaign demands same-sex marriage for gays while fighting ex-gay equality. One of their latest victories is to successfully bully the World Bank into denying funds to ex-gay charities while allowing gay organizations to participate.</p>
<p>Yet ex-gays are not dangerous or deluded as homosexual extremists charge.  We are the National Education Association’s Ex-Gay Educators Caucus.  We are Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays &amp; Gays, which successfully sued the District of Columbia government for refusing to recognize former homosexuals in its sexual orientation protections.  We are your doctors, teachers, ministers, family, and neighbors.</p>
<p>The American Psychological Association adheres to a code of ethics which calls on their members to respect a person’s right to self-determination.  Therefore the only question about the Dr. Bachmann news is this:  Should homosexuals have the right to determine heterosexuality?  That is, if a gay man decides he wants to live as a healthy heterosexual, as I decided, should homosexuals have the right to veto that decision?</p>
<p>The answer will determine if America is to be ruled by a politically powerful minority like the gay community, or if equality and justice for all will prevail.  As for me, I long to live in an America where my friends and I are not hounded by gay activists because I chose to change from gay to straight.</p>
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<p>Greg Quinlan is President of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays &amp; Gays and Executive Director of Equality and Justice For All.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Does this mean you&#8217;re not going to be gay anymore?&#8221; Here is Part Two of our pre-recorded interview with Stephen Black [click HERE to listen] of First Stone Ministries, based in Oklahoma City. This interview with Black (﻿www.stephenblack.org), who once considered himself &#8220;gay,&#8221; aired July 9, 2011. Stephen and AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera discuss the ideal of speaking the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>&#8220;Does this mean you&#8217;re not going to be gay anymore?&#8221;</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_9566" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 175px"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Stephen_Black.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9566" title="Stephen_Black" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Stephen_Black-218x300.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="223" /></a></em></span><p class="wp-caption-text">Stephen Black, who left the homosexual lifestyle and has now been married 25 years, says Gospel truth must be preached to &quot;gays,&quot; in the love and humility of Jesus Christ.</p></div>
<p>Here is Part Two of our pre-recorded interview with <strong>Stephen Black [click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/7-9-11-Stephen-Black-Part-Two.mp3" target="_blank">HERE to listen</a>] </strong>of <a href="http://www.firststone.org/" target="_blank">First Stone Ministries</a>, based in Oklahoma City. This interview with Black (﻿<a href="http://www.stephenblack.org">www.stephenblack.org</a>), who once considered himself &#8220;gay,&#8221; aired July 9, 2011. Stephen and AFTAH President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong> discuss the ideal of speaking the truth about homosexual sin, in the love of Christ. They criticize the soft, defensive message of &#8220;emergent&#8221; Christians like <strong><a href="http://www.themarinfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Andy Marin</a></strong> (author of <a href="http://www.loveisanorientation.com/" target="_blank">&#8220;Love Is and Orientation&#8221;) </a>&#8211; as a false form of love bereft of biblical truth. (Marin is reluctant to call homosexual practice sinful and has launched an &#8220;I&#8217;m Sorry&#8221; campaign whereby evangelicals apologize to homosexuals (and others) for the alleged &#8220;homophobic&#8221; shortcomings of the Church; see the video of <a href="http://www.gaychristian.net/campolos.php" target="_blank">pro-same-sex-&#8221;marriage&#8221;</a> evangelical <strong>Peggy Campolo</strong> currently at the top of Marin&#8217;s blog <a href="http://www.loveisanorientation.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> [dated July 14th].) Black and LaBarbera agree with ex-&#8221;gay&#8221; <strong>Andy Comiskey</strong> that the &#8221;emergent&#8221;-type approach like Marin&#8217;s is a <a href="http://www.stephenblack.org/2010/12/01/the-whole-gospel-for-gays-by-andy-comiskey/" target="_blank">&#8220;gutless gospel.&#8221;</a>  Yet they also agree that harsh or insensitive Christians can preach a lot of truths about homosexuality. but without the love and humility demanded of those advancing the Gospel (Black says some have been &#8220;cruel and mean&#8221; toward homosexuals). Stephen gives a short version of his personal testimony, but in <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/06/14/aftah-interview-with-stephen-black-part-one/" target="_blank">Part One of this interview</a></strong> he lays out his life story (including being molested as a boy) and exodus from homosexuality; click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/06/14/aftah-interview-with-stephen-black-part-one/" target="_blank">HERE for Part One</a>.  You can visit the archive page containing all the AFTAH Hour interviews <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/americans-for-truth-hour/">HERE</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Love-In-An-Orientation-small.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9578" style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="Love-In-An-Orientation-small" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Love-In-An-Orientation-small-107x150.jpg" alt="" width="107" height="150" /></a>P.S. LaBarbera has extended an open invitation to Andy Marin to appear on the AFTAH radio show</strong>, or speak/debate at at a neutral forum on the proper attitude of Bible-believing Christians toward people practicing homosexuality. We hope he accepts; you can <a href="http://www.themarinfoundation.org/contact/" target="_blank">contact Marin</a> at <a href="mailto:info@themarinfoundation.org">info@themarinfoundation.org</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>AFTAH in the News: ABC uses homosexual activist&#8217;s mocking slogan, &#8220;Pray Away the Gay&#8221;</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_9557" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Janet_Boynes_Called-Out-cover.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9557" title="Janet_Boynes_Called-Out-cover" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/07/Janet_Boynes_Called-Out-cover.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ex-lesbian Janet Boynes was shown in the ABC piece by investigative reporter Brian Ross, but he did not &quot;investigate&quot; her story of leaving lesbianism with God&#39;s help. </p></div>
<p>Folks, it sure didn&#8217;t take long for the liberal media to go into Christian-bashing mode against GOP presidential candidate <strong>Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). </strong>Watch this almost comically biased <strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/pray-gay-bachmanns-clinic-14050401" target="_blank">hit-piece by ABC&#8217;s Brian Ross</a></strong> &#8212; featuring the militantly anti-Christian homosexual organization <strong><a href="http://www.truthwinsout.com/" target="_blank">Truth Wins Out</a>.</strong> (TWO denies the reality that people can leave homosexuality behind; I call them <strong>&#8220;Focus on the Failures&#8221;</strong> because their nonsensical argument seems to be that since many practicing &#8220;gays&#8221; fail in their quest to change, transformation away from homosexuality is a myth.)</p>
<p>Incredibly, ABC even went so far as to title its piece <strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/pray-gay-bachmanns-clinic-14050401" target="_blank">&#8220;Pray Away the Gay at Bachmann Clinic?&#8221;</a></strong> &#8212; recycling TWO founder <strong>Wayne Besen&#8217;s</strong> mocking and bigoted attack-slogan for the idea that people can overcome homosexual desires through faith in God. Shouldn&#8217;t it have occurred to Ross to sit down with and interview a SUCCESSFUL former homosexual like <strong><a href="http://www.janetboynesministries.com/" target="_blank">Janet Boynes</a></strong>, who:</p>
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<li><strong>lives near Minneapolis, where the Bachmanns&#8217; counseling clinic is located;</strong></li>
<li><strong>was mentioned in the story &#8212; the undercover TWO &#8220;investigative reporter&#8221; ominously cites a copy of Janet&#8217;s book, <a href="http://www.janetboynesministries.com/" target="_blank">&#8220;Called Out,&#8221;</a> endorsed by Dr. Bachmann;</strong></li>
<li><strong>is a happy FORMER lesbian who endeavors to help others out of homosexuality, and who credits God for the power to change?  </strong></li>
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<p><span id="more-9555"></span>We confirmed that no ABC reporter contacted Boynes for their story on the Backmann clinic. I don&#8217;t have much hope of changing <strong>ABC </strong>[but you can contact them <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843" target="_blank">HERE</a>]; they and most of the secular &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media are for all practical purposes a part of Gay Inc. at this point. But let&#8217;s use this unfair hit-piece to highlight the truth: that <strong>people like Janet Boynes and Linda Jernigan &#8212; who once thought they were &#8220;gay&#8221; &#8212; can and do leave homosexuality behind, often through the &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; of Jesus Christ.</strong> &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
<p>See my comments in bold below in <strong>Cliff Kincaid&#8217;s</strong> excellent <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-guns-fire-blanks-at-bachmann/" target="_blank">Accuracy in Media</a> story (all emphasis added):</p>
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<h4>Media Guns Fire Blanks at Bachmann</h4>
<p>By: Cliff Kincaid, [reprinted from <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-guns-fire-blanks-at-bachmann/" target="_blank">Accuracy in Media</a>] |  July 12, 2011  </p>
<p>Once a greatly feared investigative reporter, <strong>Brian Ross</strong> has been reduced to recycling left-wing material from the homosexual lobby. But the pathetic hit job he narrated on Monday’s ABC Nightline show on GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has backfired in a big way. The charge was that the Bachmann family counseling service engages in terrible things by teaching homosexuals how to leave their disease-ridden lifestyle.</p>
<p>Ross called this method of counseling, which emphasizes religious conversion, “highly controversial” and said it “could become a campaign issue.” Ironically, however, he presented evidence that ex-homosexuals do in fact exist</p>
<p>It is a sign of the dominance of the homosexual lobby in the media business that such a program would even be aired. The upcoming <a href="http://www.nlgja.org/news/7july11.htm" target="_blank">National Lesbian &amp; Gay Journalists Association</a> convention features “Today” show co-anchor Ann Curry and CNN’s Don Lemon as keynote speakers.</p>
<p>The ABC piece, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/michele-bachmann-exclusive-pray-gay-candidates-clinic/story?id=14048691" target="_blank">“Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay?,”</a> was constructed in such a way as to suggest that ex-homosexuals are non-existent, even though the Brian Ross report itself noted the presence of books by a “self-proclaimed ex-lesbian” in the counseling center. A video from the ex-lesbian, Janet Boynes, was even shown briefly on the air. This was supposed to be shocking.</p>
<p>Of course, the notion of the Bible condemning homosexual behavior, reflected in several passages, was viewed as bizarre and intolerant.</p>
<p><strong>Peter LaBarbera of <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/" target="_blank">Americans for Truth</a> says the phrase, “pray away the gay,” is intended to ridicule Christians and comes directly from homosexual activist Wayne Besen’s group, Truth Wins Out. LaBarbera asks, “Why are the major media repeating these hateful attack slogans by radical gay activists?”</strong></p>
<p><strong>He explains, “We don’t mock the idea of leaving drug addiction or alcoholism with God’s help. Why is it acceptable to mock faith in God to overcome unwanted behaviors like homosexuality in their lives?”</strong></p>
<p><strong>“Wayne Besen’s thesis is that ex-gays don’t exist,” noted LaBarbera. But <a href="http://www.janetboynesministries.com/" target="_blank">Janet Boynes</a> is a real person and absolute proof that one can leave the homosexual lifestyle.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Perhaps without realizing it, Ross has presented evidence of the homosexual “change” that he was trying to discredit.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“The homosexual lobby simply can’t deal with the reality that ‘gays’ can change (usually with God’s help),” LaBarbera adds. His group recently hosted an event with another ex-lesbian, <a href="http://www.rescuinghomosexuals.net/about.htm" target="_blank">Linda Jernigan</a>.</strong></p>
<p>To make matters worse, the ABC hit piece was largely recycled leftist material. Ross borrowed heavily from Truth Wins Out (TWO) and an article in <em>The Nation</em> magazine, in order to concoct the shaky story.</p>
<p>Since the segment was light on anything truly horrifying, he used film footage from a Truth Wins Out operative who had secretly taped a counselor for the Bachmann service. This had the effect of making everything look sinister. The apparently shocking advice to the undercover homosexual operative was that heterosexuality is natural and homosexuality is not. This is what passes for “investigative journalism” these days.</p>
<p>“ABC’s Brian Ross did a terrific job with this Nightline segment…” declared TWO executive director Wayne Besen.</p>
<p>As such, Ross can expect to be nominated for an award from the Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which honors pro-homosexual coverage.</p>
<p>The Brian Ross hit piece follows an attack on the popular Congresswoman by <strong>Matt Taibbi</strong> in <em>Rolling Stone</em> magazine,”Michele Bachmann’s Holy War,” where he smeared Bachmann as “a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions.”</p>
<p>Blogger Trevor Loudon disclosed that Taibbi was the <a href="http://trevorloudon.com/2011/07/matt-taibbi-bachmann-hitpiece-author-received-socialist-award/" target="_blank">recipient</a> of an award from the <strong>Democratic Socialists of America</strong> in Boston for his hard-left reporting.</p>
<p>Loudon commented, “Maybe Matt Taibbi should tell us about his own true beliefs. I’m betting he is not as open about his own convictions as Michele Bachmann is about hers.”</p>
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		<title>AFTAH Writer Is Grossed Out by &#8216;International Mr. Leather&#8217; Perversion-fest Hosted by Hyatt Regency Chicago</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Highly Offensive and Graphic Images and Subject Matter Folks, to people who proudly practice homosexuality (sin), this is “Gay Pride Month.” But there doesn’t seem to be much to be “proud” of in this account of the vendor area at “International Mr. Leather,” Chicago’s annual, mostly homosexual sadistic-sex celebration. AFTAH writer and experienced pro-family [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_9456" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 234px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/IML-2011_Hyatt_Regency_Chicago_sign.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9456" title="IML-2011_Hyatt_Regency_Chicago_sign" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/IML-2011_Hyatt_Regency_Chicago_sign-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Perverts Take Over Hotel: Hyatt Regency Chicago sign alerts public to &quot;private event&quot; occupying the hotel. The &quot;private event&quot; is International Mr. Leather, one of the most bizarrely obscene, homosexual perversion celebrations on the planet.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;">Folks, to people who proudly practice homosexuality (sin), this is <strong>“Gay Pride Month.”</strong> But there doesn’t seem to be much to be “proud” of in this account of the vendor area at “International Mr. Leather,” Chicago’s annual, mostly homosexual sadistic-sex celebration. AFTAH writer and experienced pro-family activist Lynn Thomas had a hard time reporting on this awful spectacle because, well, she is normal. The sheer perverseness of homosexual sadomasochism (including “consensual” “master-slave relationships”) – embraced and celebrated as the “leather community” under the LGBT umbrella – makes it difficult to expose.</p>
<p>The country talks about the “Heartland” and “Midwestern values,” but the reality is that Chicago has become one of the most perverted cities in the world. Of course, this is due in part to it being one of the most homosexual-friendly cities in the world. Chicago even has its very own Perversion Museum, our name for the truly bizarre <a href="http://www.leatherarchives.org/" target="_blank">Leather Archives &amp; Museum</a> (LA&amp;M) &#8212; which carefully documents the sadomasochistic deviancies of mostly homosexual “leathermen,” and some hetero and lesbian perverts. (See below the twisted painting from the LA&amp;M, which is housed in a nondescript building in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood on the north side.)</p>
<p>This “Leather Museum,” and the welcoming home that the Windy City has become to proud sexual deviants of various stripes, speaks volumes about the slippery-slope of tolerance toward  abetting evil; the organizing power of a sin movement; but most importantly of America’s staggering, post-Christian moral decline. <strong>– Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a> </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">TAKE ACTION: </span>Tell the <a href="http://www.chicagoregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?null">Hyatt Regency Chicago</a> [312-565-1234; hit “0” and ask for the Executive Offices] that it is wrong and un-hygienic to profit off perversion-fests like IML – no matter how much the Hyatt was paid by IML organizers for this revolting event (see photos). We don’t know what kinds of special chemicals are required for the clean-up after the orgies and sodomies committed in spades at “International Mr. Leather.” (And pity the poor maids.) But would you want to sleep in the same bed where a homosexual orgy – or drunken, orgiastic encounter between two “leathermen” &#8212; took place – with body fluids and feces flying here and there? Neither would we. Call the Hyatt at: 312-565-1234; hit “0” and ask for the Executive Offices.</strong></p></blockquote>
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<strong>AFTAH Writer Is Grossed Out by International Mr. Leather Perversion-Fest Held at Hyatt Regency Chicago</strong></h4>
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<p>By Lynn Thomas, <em>Special to Americans For Truth</em></p>
<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Walking to the front of the building, there was nothing noticeable on the outside that I could see that identified the fact that Mr. International Leather was being held at the Hyatt Regency. Other than men dressed in leather boots or leather pants who gathered at the front of the building hugging each other with their luggage, ready to catch a cab, and the fact that few females were visible walking the grounds, it could have been a convention of any type. Except there was a flagrant homosexual theme if you sized up the men: some were holding hands; some were cuddling or kissing. Coming in through the front door, this sign warned that the entire hotel was reserved for a “private event.” </p>
<p><span id="more-9455"></span>There were a lot of &#8216;sentries&#8217; at the top of escalators, and traveling down one level there was a &#8216;desk&#8217; by the escalator, where a number of flamboyantly dressed men were gathered and making small talk.  They told me to go downstairs to &#8216;register&#8217; and pay my $5.00 for admission.  When I got downstairs, they told me to go upstairs, I wound up by with that same group of men, and so one of them escorted me personally to where I needed to go. I was met with sneers along the way as though they knew I didn&#8217;t belong there. I tried to play up the illusion that I am &#8216;pro gay.&#8217; I stood in line, took out my ID, which I had to show when I paid. There were a number of circular tables in between where you paid and showed your ID and where you got your wrist band put on.  At the tables everyone had to take their waiver form and fill it out and sign it. With that filled out and in hand, people travelled down a line toward the booths to receive the wristband that would allow you to come in and out of the vendors’ area. While in that line, they checked IDs again.  Then we reached the last area where we had our wristbands fastened to our wrists, and showed ID&#8217;s one last time.</p>
<p>From there it was another escalator ride down to the basement level. The basement was dark, and there were double doors to enter the vendor area.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p>Going into the &#8220;leather market&#8221; was an experience. I started at the back of the room, with the intention of weaving my way through the aisles, so as not to miss anything and see all of the vendors. But I was inundated with images of rough men doing rough things to one another, and paraphernalia on sale for people to do rough and obscene things to one another. There were whips and chains and straps to tie people down; dildos [fake penises] in the size and shape if animal species&#8217; erect penises. They were labeled baby elephant, donkey, horse&#8230;and the thought of where those things would go and what would be done with them, made me nauseous.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, I went to NightTours.com, where I read a description from someone about &#8220;International Mr. Leather at Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago&#8221;:<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<blockquote><p>The exhibits in the host hotel are for examination or purchase of just about any and every type of leather, bondage, or fetish gear you can imagine.  Many are small distributors (or designers) alongside major national and international labels.  From cock rings and handkerchiefs, to electro shock and stimulators, to rubber cat-suits and body armor: it can be found there and purchased with credit cards.  As an added bonus, most major adult studios have booths for their stars to take photos with fans and sell the latest DVDs and give away free promotional material.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I didn&#8217;t get too far through the vendor displays &#8212; with leather-clad men gathered in clumps turning to look at me &#8212; before I had a panic attack and needed to exit the building. The sadistic-sex “market” was in the basement, the carpet was dark, and the vendors&#8217; wares were horrific.</p>
<div id="attachment_9458" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Leather_Archives_Stature-tory_Rape_Painting-Covered.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9458 " title="Leather_Archives_Stature-tory_Rape_Painting-Covered" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Leather_Archives_Stature-tory_Rape_Painting-Covered-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Twisted painting advertised by the Chicago &quot;Leather Archives &amp; Museum&quot; at IML. We&#39;ve covered up the genitalia here.</p></div>
<p>I exited the market a few times to go back to my car and take a breather and settle my nerves somewhat. I had intended on taking pictures of the attendees like I did at last year’s outdoor Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, where the attendees were happily snapping their little cameras to capture their own personal photos of Folsom. Mr. Leather didn&#8217;t have any snap-happy people; I didn&#8217;t see a single person with a camera or shooting photographs.</p>
<p>Leather, and sadomasochism, was everywhere, and far more serious than what I saw at Folsom in San Francisco. There were medical devices for such things as inserting saline solution into a man’s scrotum to expand it. I took a picture of a man who had done that at Folsom; the paraphernalia including syringe was available at Mr. Leather. There also was paraphernalia for &#8216;cutting&#8217; (skin) which, like other forms of torture, has erotic value to Mr. Leather fans. The &#8220;cutting&#8221; paraphernalia was in the same booth as the device with the needle to insert the saline solution into the scrotum to blow it up like a balloon.  I asked the vendor how exactly that was done, and he pointed out someone who had experience with it.  He said it &#8216;feels good&#8217; and it takes a few days for the saline to get absorbed back into the system.</p>
<p>I saw a small Asian man who was in handcuffs&#8211;the same man I saw in San Francisco at Folsom, only this time he was wearing a little mesh skirt that you could see through.  He was completely naked underneath, and you could see his penis.</p>
<p>Another mam I encountered had a long dark dong hanging down that I was trying not to look at, and what he had to offer is a foreskin that would increase a man&#8217;s penis size. For some reason he thought I would appreciate it, and gave me some information about the prooduct; it was disgusting in its detailed description.</p>
<p>An activist explains more about the hosting hotels for IML [<strong><em>Edtior’s Note</em>: </strong>we do not know if the Hyatt Regency allowed non-IML guests to stay in the hotel; however, this phenomenon of surprised outsiders accidentally stumbling upon IML and other homosexual events has been observed often through the years]:</p>
<blockquote><p>The host hotel has changed through the years. That is where most of the action happens, so if you have a chance to go, book your room early. It fills up fast. Keep in mind that most of the entire hotel will be full, but not ALL of the rooms will be used for IML activities, so you may see some bewildered, amused or frightened MidWesterners in the hotel too, clutching tightly to their children.</p></blockquote>
<p>He is right&#8211;there were masks, dog masks, and medieval-looking shackles on the vendors&#8217; tables, men with kilts walking about, men wearing tight leather pants, and quite a few were shirtless with harnesses of some type on their torsos. I found out in the Mr. Leather brochure what that harness is all about when it showed a picture of two porn stars that were going to do a &#8216;show&#8217; at the booth for Steamworks, a local “gay” bathhouse where men go for anonymous sodomitic hook-ups.</p>
<p>At the head of one of the escalator was a man wearing a dog mask, although I didn&#8217;t see anyone in a dog cage like I saw at Folsom San Francisco. They usually wear collars that are attached to leashes, and the ones playing the dogs are on hands and knees; sometimes they bark. I saw this also at Folsom in San Francisco, but the man with the dog mask at the escalator was just sitting on a chair checking for wristbands, giving a thumbs up to passersby who wore their wristband, an indication you could proceed down to the next level to get to the market.</p>
<p>I had the feeling of heavy security at this event. And understandably so, considering the extreme subject matter.</p>
<div id="attachment_9459" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Fort_Troff_Pig_Sex.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9459 " title="Fort_Troff_Pig_Sex" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Fort_Troff_Pig_Sex-300x244.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="244" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This image is from the website of &quot;Fort Troff,&quot; one of the vendors at International Mr. Leather. This Atlanta-based company sells &quot;Pig Sex Gear&quot; for homosexual orgies. Shame on hotels like the Hyatt Regency Chicago for profiting off the celebration of such perversion.</p></div>
<p>There was a contraption for tying someone down to a bed, and the explanation card said the d-rings could be hidden when not in use, apparently a selling point for the device. There was a video of a man tied up in a harness, face down, breathing heavily, his buttocks bright red, with a man sitting or standing while masturbating next to the table. The standing, masturbating man whipped the man who was tied down with what looked like a riding crop.  Eventually the masturbating man ejaculated all over the tied up man&#8217;s back, and then threw himself on top of him.  If I&#8217;m not mistaken, he literally bit the tied up man, and then the camera fades.</p>
<p>The most shocking thing I saw at this event was a video of a thin, naked and pale white man hanging from the ceiling in handcuffs. His legs were drawn upward toward his chest, and he was literally swinging from side to side from the force of another man shoving his arm into the hanging man&#8217;s rectum, all the way up to his elbow. (This is known as “fisting,” another homosexual perversion.) He pulled it out and shoved it in again, and that was all I could stomach watching before I felt the urgent need to leave the event permanently.</p>
<p>Booth after booth of sadomasochistic sickness was too much for me to take, and because of the stares I was getting from groups of men, I was literally afraid to take photographs. Deviance was the “norm” at IML: I went out into the hallway, and saw a woman getting whipped by her female partner – with the one receiving the whipping yelling and swearing. There were other people gathered around, evaluating the riding crop-looking thing that was being used as the whipping device. It had some kind of tip on the end of it to inflict pain.</p>
<p>I picked up a card showing a miniature version of an oil painting called “Statue-tory Rape, by the artist Pierre Etienne [see covered-up photo]. The actual painting is on display at the Leather Archives &amp; Museum (a sponsor of IML). I picked up another card titled, &#8220;Leather Archives &amp; Museum Presents: Multi Media History &#8211; The Leather SINS Screening Room.&#8221;</p>
<p>With so much evidence in my face of the twisted behaviors these people engage in, and remembering how horrific the homosexual activists were to the pro-family attendees at the recent &#8220;Defend Marriage Rally&#8221; in downtown Chicago, I packed it in and went home after two hours without taking a single picture of any of the vendors&#8217; tables.</p>
<p>But though my camera was empty, I went home with lots of vividly disturbing mental images that I am still having trouble flushing from my mind.</p>
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		<title>Openly Homosexual CNN Anchor Don Lemon Was Molested as Boy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deluded out-and-proud &#8216;gays&#8217; reject pedophilia as causing their sexual confusion CNN evening anchor Don Lemon has declared his homosexuality &#8212; to the surprise of few who have followed his biased reporting on homosexuality issues &#8211; including his direct promotion of the &#8220;gay&#8221; activist political agenda. (In 2006, as a Chicago newsman for NBC5, Lemon hosted a fundraiser for [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Don-Lemon-on-CNN.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9437" style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="Don-Lemon-on-CNN" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/Don-Lemon-on-CNN-300x228.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="154" /></a>CNN evening anchor <strong>Don Lemon</strong> has declared his homosexuality &#8212; to the surprise of few who have followed his biased reporting on homosexuality issues &#8211; including his direct promotion of the &#8220;gay&#8221; activist political agenda. (In 2006, as a Chicago newsman for NBC5, Lemon hosted a <a href="http://chicago.gopride.com/photos/album.cfm?ID=548" target="_blank">fundraiser for Equality Illinois</a>, a homosexual lobby group, thus violating the principle of journalistic non-involvement in politics.) In the 2010 CNN video below about the alleged  pederastic activity of Atlanta mega-pastor <strong><a href="http://www.gcmwatch.com/5993/bishop-eddie-long-drops-his-five-stones-2" target="_blank">Bishop Eddie Long</a> </strong>[Read DL Foster's "Gay Christian Movement Watch" post on Bishop Long <a href="http://www.gcmwatch.com/5993/bishop-eddie-long-drops-his-five-stones-2" target="_blank">HERE</a>.], Lemon reveals that he was molested as a boy (about 5:21 in the YouTube video).  What is perplexing is that Lemon, like so many self-styled &#8220;gay&#8221; men, apparently does not view his molestation as a major causative factor in his homosexual identity and behavior. &#8220;People are going to say: &#8216;Oh, he was molested as a kid and now he is coming out [as homosexual].&#8217; I get it,&#8221; Lemon told the <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/business/media/16anchor.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a></em> dismissively, in discussing his new book. &#8220;Transparent,&#8221; in which he reveals his homosexuality. To me, there is no greater proof of the perverse self-deception of homosexuality than to behold how sexually confused adults incorporate their victimization at the hands of pedophiles into their out-and-proud &#8220;gay&#8221; identity. Which is to say &#8212; even before reading his book: &#8221;Don, you are not &#8216;gay,&#8217; but the victim of a homosexual child molester, who corrupted your mind, body and soul &#8212; and innocence &#8212; at a tender young age!&#8221; More on this later. <strong>&#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Illinois Catholic Leaders Take Legal Action Against Homosexual Adoption Mandate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New ballot efforts seeks voter referendum on &#8220;gay marriage/civil unions&#8221; in Illinois in 2012 Note: it is outrageous that the State of lllinois would even consider FORCING religious adoption agencies (or irreligious agencies, for that matter) to place children in homes that are motherless or fatherless by design. Adults (proudly) practicing homosexuality are not good role [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/IDMI-logo-website.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-9417" style="margin: 5px 10px; border: black 1px solid;" title="IDMI-logo-website" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/IDMI-logo-website-300x177.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="177" /></a>Note: it is outrageous that the State of lllinois would even consider FORCING religious adoption agencies (or irreligious agencies, for that matter) to place children in homes that are motherless or fatherless <em>by design</em>. Adults (proudly) practicing homosexuality are not good role models for impressionable children, who need a mom and a dad. (No, the sexes are not  interchangeable.) The new Illinois &#8220;Civil Unions&#8221; law &#8212; rammed through Springfield in a lame-duck session &#8212; must be repealed to preserve religious liberty in the Land of Lincoln. &#8221;Exemptions&#8221; &#8212; even if they are strengthened &#8211; won&#8217;t preserve freedom. </strong></p>
<p><strong>In the meantime, a new movement has been launched to place an <a href="http://www.defendmarriageil.org" target="_blank">Advisory Referendum</a> on &#8220;same-sex marriage&#8221; (and &#8220;civil unions&#8221;) on the Illinois ballot in 2012. Almost 300,000 signatures of Illinos voters must be gathered and turned into the Illlinois Board of Elections by April 2012 to make that happen. To get involved, go to <a href="http://www.defendmarriageillinois.org/">www.DefendMarriageIllinois.org</a> and download a petition and instructions. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org/">www.aftah.org</a>   </strong></p>
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<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                     </strong></p>
<p><strong>CONTACT: </strong> Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333; <a href="mailto:tc@tcpr.net">tc@tcpr.net</a>; June 7, 2011                                                                                                                  <strong> </strong></p>
<h4><strong>Catholic Leaders Take Legal Action Over Risk of Losing Foster Care Services</strong></h4>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><em>Catholic Charities in Illinois Seek Remedy for Best Interests of Children, Families</em></strong></span></p>
<p>(SPRINGFIELD, IL) Leaders of three Catholic dioceses – the <strong>Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, Peoria and Joliet</strong> – took legal action today as their charities fight to continue their work in serving the best interests of thousands of needy children and families throughout the state.</p>
<p>In March of this year, the Attorney General’s office issued a letter stating that the office “received notice that <strong>Catholic Charities</strong> … discriminates against Illinois citizens based on race, marital status and sexual orientation” in the provision of foster care and adoption services and demanded that Catholic Charities turn over a wide range of documents in response. The June 1 law authorizing civil unions in Illinois has raised further questions and criticism about Catholic Charities’ longstanding position not to place children for adoption and foster care with non-married couples who live together – regardless of sexual orientation.</p>
<p>This lawsuit, filed in Sangamon County Circuit Court, seeks a declaration that the charities are in full compliance with Illinois law in their current practices and an injunction against further action by Illinois government officials to the contrary. The charities argue both that the Illinois Human Rights Act exempts religious adoption agencies from the provisions relied upon by the Attorney General’s office and that the new <strong>Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act</strong> includes an express protection for the religious freedom of entities like Catholic Charities.</p>
<p><span id="more-9408"></span>The charities ask the court to declare that they are legally justified to continue their current practices of working only with married couples and single, non-cohabiting individuals. Civil union couples are free to choose among dozens of other organizations for these services.</p>
<p>“Child welfare advocates know it is in the best interest of Illinois children for Catholic Charities to stay in this business,” said <strong>Steven Roach</strong>, Executive Director for Catholic Charities in the Springfield Diocese. “It’s tragic that there are people who believe unnecessarily disrupting the lives of thousands of vulnerable children is an acceptable outcome in this situation.”</p>
<p>Catholic Charities have served thousands of children and families with top-quality, nurturing care since 1921 and handle about 20 percent of the cases in Illinois. Charities’ leaders are extremely concerned what will happen with those children and families if they are forced out of this work.</p>
<p>“Religious and faith-based entities need not check their beliefs at the door when providing vital social services for the benefit of needy and vulnerable children and families in Illinois. Catholic Charities has a clear right under Illinois law to pursue its charitable good works in the true spirit of the Gospels and the Sermon on the Mount, faithful to the essential tenets of its Catholic faith. We will advocate strongly to protect Catholic Charities’ continuing its mission of social service,” said <strong>Tom Brejcha</strong> of the <strong>Thomas More Society</strong>, which is representing the charities in the lawsuit.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Thomas More Society</span></strong></p>
<p>Formed in 1997, the <a href="http://www.thomasmoresociety.org/" target="_blank">Thomas More Society</a> is a national public interest law firm based in Chicago. The Society defends religious liberty, marriage, and the sanctity of human life in courtrooms across the country. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.thomasmoresociety.org/">www.thomasmoresociety.org</a>.</p>
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		<title>Video: Pro-Homosexual Activist Destroys Traditional Marriage Banner in New York</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Gay&#8217; &#8220;Bullying Tactics&#8221; won&#8217;t dissuade marriage defenders, says TFP leader Folks, we&#8217;ve seen this nasty brand of homosexual bullying and intolerance so often that we&#8217;re no longer shocked by it. Watch the TFP Student Action video as peaceful TFP members shout &#8220;Aggressor!&#8221; as this troubled man walks up and destroys their banner, in Fairport, New York. Imagine if a bunch of pro-family [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_9404" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/TFP_Pro_Gay_Attacker_Destroys_Banner.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9404  " title="TFP_Pro_Gay_Attacker_Destroys_Banner" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/06/TFP_Pro_Gay_Attacker_Destroys_Banner-300x236.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="236" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pro-homosexual &quot;marriage&quot; activist attacks TFP banner that proclaimed marriage as it truly is: between a man and a woman. TFP members shouted &quot;Aggressor!&quot; as the assailant did his dirty deed. Later, a TFP member was hit in the head by a beer bottle thrown from a car passing by. </p></div>
<p>Folks, we&#8217;ve seen this nasty brand of homosexual bullying and intolerance so often that we&#8217;re no longer shocked by it. Watch the <a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/what-we-do/street-campaigns/video-pro-homosexual-advocate-destroys-traditional-marriage-banner-in-new-york.html" target="_blank">TFP Student Action video</a> as peaceful TFP members shout &#8220;Aggressor!&#8221; as this troubled man walks up and destroys their banner, in Fairport, New York. Imagine if a bunch of pro-family activists did this to a pro-&#8221;gay banner&#8221; banner! (CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN would be lining up to tell the story.) TFP is a Catholic group that has done yeoman&#8217;s work standing up for <em>real</em> marriage across the nation. Watch the TFP Student Action video at their website <a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/what-we-do/street-campaigns/video-pro-homosexual-advocate-destroys-traditional-marriage-banner-in-new-york.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. &#8211; Peter LaBarbera,. <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>Video: Pro-Homosexual Advocate Destroys Traditional Marriage Banner in New York</strong></p>
<p>Contact: Contact: John Ritchie, American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, 717-495-5427</p>
<p>FAIRPORT, N.Y., June 6, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ &#8212; Volunteers with the <a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/what-we-do/street-campaigns/video-pro-homosexual-advocate-destroys-traditional-marriage-banner-in-new-york.html" target="_blank">American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP)</a> were assaulted while peacefully demonstrating for traditional marriage in Fairport, New York, on June 2.</p>
<p>As young TFP volunteers stood at the corner of Main Street and Church Street with signs, a pro-homosexualist hurled himself against the group&#8217;s thirteen foot long banner inscribed with &#8220;God&#8217;s Marriage = 1 Man &amp; 1 Woman.&#8221; The banner, held by three volunteers, was knocked down and violently torn to pieces.</p>
<p>Watch video footage of the attack <a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/what-we-do/street-campaigns/video-pro-homosexual-advocate-destroys-traditional-marriage-banner-in-new-york.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p><span id="more-9403"></span>The assailant also threatened to destroy the group&#8217;s cameras used to document their campaigns for moral values. &#8220;I&#8217;ll smash your camera,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Approaching another TFP volunteer who was holding a sign that read <strong>&#8220;Honk for Traditional Marriage,&#8221; </strong>the aggressor said: &#8220;Are you going to give me your sign, or do I need to rip it up too!?&#8221;</p>
<p>In a separate incident at the same demonstration, another supporter of &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; threw a beer bottle at TFP volunteer Michael Shibler from a moving vehicle. The glass bottle hit him on the forehead, causing it to swell and bleed. Local police are investigating both incidents.</p>
<p>&#8220;These bully tactics do not even slightly dampen my resolve to continue promoting the truth about marriage in charity. Our cause is noble and we will win,&#8221; said Shibler.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some say that same-sex &#8216;marriage&#8217; doesn&#8217;t harm or affect anybody. Well, I think my throbbing forehead is a good example of how it does harm people. Anti-family proponents would like to completely silence my first amendment right to free speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;While demanding tolerance for what they call &#8216;diversity,&#8217; they are utterly intolerant of opposing viewpoints.&#8221;</p>
<p>TFP, a Catholic organization, was distributing flyers titled &#8220;10 Reasons Why Homosexual &#8216;Marriage&#8217; Is Harmful and Must Be Opposed.&#8221; It calls on New Yorkers to firmly and peacefully resist the advance of the so-called gay-rights movement.</p>
<p>Christian Newswire release: <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8927017115.html">http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8927017115.html</a></p>
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